Unable to build Jenkins source on Windows

[Suren G]

Hello Everybody,

I am trying to build Jenkins source within Jenkins as a job on Windows and i am not able to see a successful build. Can somebody please suggest?

build command -> mvn -Dskip-test-harness install -e 

[INFO] Error stacktraces are turned on.
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
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[INFO] Reactor Build Order:
[INFO] 
[INFO] Jenkins main module
[INFO] Jenkins cli
[INFO] Jenkins core
[INFO] Jenkins war
[INFO] Tests for Jenkins core
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[INFO] Building Jenkins main module 1.648-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-enforcer-plugin:1.0.1:enforce (enforce-maven) @ pom ---
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-enforcer-plugin:1.0.1:display-info (display-info) @ pom ---
[INFO] Maven Version: 3.3.3
[INFO] JDK Version: 1.8.0_45 normalized as: 1.8.0-45
[INFO] OS Info: Arch: amd64 Family: dos Name: windows server 2012 r2 Version: 6.3
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-enforcer-plugin:1.0.1:enforce (default) @ pom ---
[INFO] Adding ignore: org.eclipse.jetty.spdy.*
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-enforcer-plugin:1.0.1:enforce (enforce-banned-dependencies) @ pom ---
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- build-helper-maven-plugin:1.7:timestamp-property (timestamp-property) @ pom ---
[INFO] Setting property 'now' to '02/09/2016 03:46 GMT'.
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- build-helper-maven-plugin:1.7:regex-property (version-property) @ pom ---
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[INFO] Reactor Summary:
[INFO] 
[INFO] Jenkins main module ................................ FAILURE [  0.369 s]
[INFO] Jenkins cli ........................................ SKIPPED
[INFO] Jenkins core ....................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Jenkins war ........................................ SKIPPED
[INFO] Tests for Jenkins core ............................. SKIPPED
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
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[INFO] Total time: 1.080 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2016-02-08T19:46:29-08:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 15M/619M
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[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:build-helper-maven-plugin:1.7:regex-property (version-property) on project pom: Execution version-property of goal org.codehaus.mojo:build-helper-maven-plugin:1.7:regex-property failed: Illegal group reference -> [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:build-helper-maven-plugin:1.7:regex-property (version-property) on project pom: Execution version-property of goal org.codehaus.mojo:build-helper-maven-plugin:1.7:regex-property failed: Illegal group reference
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:224)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:116)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:80)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder.build(SingleThreadedBuilder.java:51)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:128)
	at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:307)
	at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:193)
	at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:106)
	at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:862)
	at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:286)
	at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:197)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginExecutionException: Execution version-property of goal org.codehaus.mojo:build-helper-maven-plugin:1.7:regex-property failed: Illegal group reference
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:145)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:208)
	... 20 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal group reference
	at java.util.regex.Matcher.appendReplacement(Matcher.java:857)
	at java.util.regex.Matcher.replaceAll(Matcher.java:955)
	at org.codehaus.mojo.buildhelper.RegexPropertyMojo.execute(RegexPropertyMojo.java:126)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:134)
	... 21 more
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/PluginExecutionException
Build step 'Execute Windows batch command' marked build as failure
Finished: FAILURE

[Victor Martinez]

Hi,

Can you confirm whether you are using a maven version 3.X? The above link might help you 

• https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Building+Jenkins
  

I hope it helps

[Suren G]

Hello Victor,

I believe so. Here is the version info of maven

mvn -version

Apache Maven 3.3.3 (7994120775791599e205a5524ec3e0dfe41d4a06; 2015-04-22T06:57:37-05:00)

Maven home: C:\Tools\apache-maven-3.3.3\bin\..

Java version: 1.8.0_60, vendor: Oracle Corporation

Java home: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_60\jre

Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252

OS name: "windows 7", version: "6.1", arch: "amd64", family: "dos"