Grouper Developers Forum

[Gary Chapman <>]

Ran into the following error when building the UI (not doing quick-start)
on my Mac in directory /usr/local/grouper-ui because /usr/local was (by
default) not writeable by me; the make process wanted to create
/usr/local/build/grouper.  Seems like others will run into this.

- Gary

$ ant
Buildfile: build.xml

auto:

help:
     [echo] Please ensure you have read the documentation -
     [echo] and created a build.properties file based on the template provided

     [echo] The following targets are available - type the appropriate name:

     [echo] 1) default
     [echo]      Simply builds, without cleaning, to the default.webapp.folder
     [echo] 2) nice
     [echo]      Attempts to stop the Tomcat webapp before building.
     [echo]      Attempts to start the webappp afterwards
etc etc etc
     [echo] 13) exit
     [echo]      Exit this menu without executing another target

    [input] Make your choice (default)>
default
[propertyfile] Updating property file: 
/usr/local/grouper-ui/.lastbuild.properties

default:

-setup:

-choose-webapp:
[propertyfile] Updating property file: 
/usr/local/grouper-ui/.lastbuild.properties
     [echo] In setup - do.clean = ${do.clean}   cleanable=true

-doStop:

-doCleanWebappClassFolder:

-doClean:

-resources:
     [echo] In resources - Build folder = 
/usr/local/grouper-ui/../build/grouper

-dist-grouper:
     [echo] Creating  /usr/local/grouper-ui/../build/grouper

BUILD FAILED
/usr/local/grouper-ui/build.xml:35: The following error occurred while 
executing this line:
/usr/local/grouper-ui/build.xml:583: The following error occurred while 
executing this line:
/usr/local/grouper-ui/build.xml:51: The following error occurred while 
executing this line:
/usr/local/grouper-ui/build.xml:491: The following error occurred while 
executing this line:
/usr/local/grouper-ui/build.xml:171: Directory /usr/local/build/grouper 
creation was not successful for an unknown reason

Total time: 3 seconds