Grouper Developers Forum

[Tom Barton <>]

Gary,

<CCing grouper-users list>

Thanks. You're correct that the parent directory of the grouper-ui 
directory must be writable. I'll add a note to this effect to the wiki 
docs as well.

Tom

Gary Chapman wrote:
> 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