directory .sbt is on a mapped drive, leads to error on startup

[Christopher Poile]

Hi everyone,

I'm on a Windows 7 computer at work that keeps it's user profile directory on a network mapped drive. So instead of c:\users\username\ as my ~ directory, it is \\excalibur\username$\WInntDT\

This seems to work fine for everything else except for SBT, which gives the following error when I add a build.sbt file in the ~\.sbt\plugins\ directory:

Invalid build URI (no handler available): file:/excalibur/username$/WinntDT/.sbt/plugins/

Are there any ideas on why this might be happening and how to fix it?

Thanks!

[Jason Zaugg]

The workaround would be to set the global SBT directory to something on your local disk:

  sbt -Dsbt.global.base=c:/sbt

-jason

[Christopher Poile]

Thank you, that works! I guess that's what I've got to do.

Chris.

[Mark Harrah]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:03:59 -0700 (PDT)
Christopher Poile <cpo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you, that works! I guess that's what I've got to do.

Alternatively, you might be able to map \\excalibur\username$\ to a drive letter (say, N:) and set -Dsbt.global.base=N:\WinntDT to keep it on your network drive.

-Mark

[Mark Harrah]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:09:33 -0700 (PDT)
David Holtzhouser <dholtz...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I had the same problem (and similar problems with Grails, RoR, Maven due
> to ridiculous forced home network mappings in a corporate environment).

I believe the underlying problem was recently minimized here: https://github.com/harrah/xsbt/issues/564

> Does the *sbt -Dsbt.global.base=c:/sbt *permanently set the home
> somewhere in configuration for SBT, or is this something that has to be
> appended each time you run it?

It has to be appended each time. You can put it in your sbt startup batch file to make it permanent. (I don't know if this is a good idea if you installed using the installer.)

-Mark

> If it does modify the home in config, where might that live?
>
> -Dave

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