uPortal 5 Gradle Build Home Directory

[JJ Fila]

So we are trying to give uPortal5 another try here, and I ran into a bump along the way:

I was attempting to run the command ./gradlew portalInit in uPortal5, but got the following error:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

...

> ../gradle.properties (No such file or directory)

I added the line println System.getProperty("user.dir")to the file uPortal-start/BuildSrc/gradle.build and learned that the directory it was building from is ~/.gradle/daemon/4.8 This seemed surprising to me - is this where the build directory should be? I expected it to be ~/.gradle

Anyway, I copied the gradle.properties file to the directory ~/.gradle/daemon and it worked, because in the build file it searches for the properties file in the current directory and directory above it:

String gradlePropsLocation = new File('gradle.properties').exists() ? 'gradle.properties' : '../gradle.properties'

That got me past that error, but now am getting an error on tomcatInstall:

* What went wrong:

Execution failed for task ':tomcatInstall'.

> Problem expanding gzip /root/uPortal-start/build/tmp/tomcat/tomcat-gunziped.tar (No such file or directory)

Going to keep digging, but I figured I'd double check on here because I was surprised it didn't work out of the box - did I miss something on the install?

Thanks,

JJ

[Drew Wills]

Wow.

I have worked on uP5 together with dozens of people/institutions/machines, and I have not seen either of these issues before.

Would you be available to get on a Zoom session and run the build together?

drew

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[JJ Fila]

Interesting.. not sure what we might have done! Yeah absolutely, are you available before 4 EDT? Otherwise tomorrow works too.

JJ

[Drew Wills]

How about tomorrow at 2pm EDT?

drew

[JJ Fila]

Sounds great.

JJ

[Stephen]

So We got the uPortal-start to work finally. Not sure if there was a java path issue before but this seemed to work.

apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
apt-get update
apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

add to /etc/environment

JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle"

then (just to work without restarting now)

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle

Then this works without any issues

./gradlew tasks
./gradlew portalInit
./gradlew tomcatStart

-Stephen

[teshome...@strathmore.edu]

Hi,

I am facing exactly the same problem. Were you finally able to resolve this problem? I am getting "Execution failed for task ' :tomcatInstall'. Problem expanding gzip /../uPortal-start/build/tmp/tomcat/tomcat-gunziped.tar (No such file or directory)

[JJ Fila]

Yes we were able to resolve it, and Stephen posted a solution we found above, however if I remember correctly I think the main issue was that we were running this on a VM? And so we moved to using a physical machine. Are you using a VM?

JJ

[teshome...@strathmore.edu]

Yes, I am using a VM

[JJ Fila]

You could try it locally on your personal machine, to see if that works

[teshome...@strathmore.edu]

Looked at the tomcat.gradle file and adjusted the path on line 47 to ('buildSrc/build/tmp/tomcat'). I guessed from the error message that it might be looking for the tomcat file in the wrong directory. But after that I am now faced with another error message about Gradle build daemon quitting unexpectedly

[JJ Fila]

Are you still running it on the VM? I'd say give it a try locally. As far as the build daemon quitting, maybe someone else might know more about that than me