I think PDEBuilder just gets all its compiler settings from
build.properties, ignoring .settings.
PDE Build uses build.properties and MANIFEST.MF, but AFAIK .settings are
only respected by PDE UI, since they're intended to be specific to your
workspace, not the code itself.
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