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Jean-Francois Im commented on KAFKA-1781: ----------------------------------------- It is weird! This is what I get: {quote} $ git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/kafka.git KAFKA-1781 Cloning into 'KAFKA-1781'... remote: Counting objects: 21794, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (7216/7216), done. remote: Total 21794 (delta 12925), reused 19667 (delta 11330) Receiving objects: 100% (21794/21794), 15.17 MiB | 2.57 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (12925/12925), done. $ cd KAFKA-1781 $ git checkout -b 0.8.2 origin/0.8.2 Branch 0.8.2 set up to track remote branch 0.8.2 from origin. Switched to a new branch '0.8.2' $ gradle --version ------------------------------------------------------------ Gradle 1.8 ------------------------------------------------------------ Build time: 2013-09-24 07:32:33 UTC Build number: none Revision: 7970ec3503b4f5767ee1c1c69f8b4186c4763e3d Groovy: 1.8.6 Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.2 compiled on July 8 2013 Ivy: 2.2.0 JVM: 1.8.0_05 (Oracle Corporation 25.5-b02) OS: Linux 2.6.32-358.6.2.el6.x86_64 amd64 $ gradle To honour the JVM settings for this build a new JVM will be forked. Please consider using the daemon: http://gradle.org/docs/1.8/userguide/gradle_daemon.html. Building project 'core' with Scala version 2.10.1 FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * Where: Build file '/home/jfim/projects/KAFKA-1781/build.gradle' line: 199 * What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating root project 'KAFKA-1781'. > Could not create task of type 'ScalaDoc'. * Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. BUILD FAILED Total time: 10.612 secs {quote} The differences between our setups seem to be JDK version (1.7.0_25 for you, 1.8.0_05 on my end) and OS (Mac OS X vs Linux). 2.0 seems to work fine with the commands you use. {quote} $ rm -rf KAFKA-1781/ $ git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/kafka.git KAFKA-1781 Cloning into 'KAFKA-1781'... remote: Counting objects: 21794, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (7216/7216), done. remote: Total 21794 (delta 12924), reused 19668 (delta 11330) Receiving objects: 100% (21794/21794), 15.17 MiB | 2.74 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (12924/12924), done. $ cd KAFKA-1781 $ git checkout -b 0.8.2 origin/0.8.2 Branch 0.8.2 set up to track remote branch 0.8.2 from origin. Switched to a new branch '0.8.2' $ gradle --version ------------------------------------------------------------ Gradle 2.0 ------------------------------------------------------------ Build time: 2014-07-01 07:45:34 UTC Build number: none Revision: b6ead6fa452dfdadec484059191eb641d817226c Groovy: 2.3.3 Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.3 compiled on December 23 2013 JVM: 1.8.0_05 (Oracle Corporation 25.5-b02) OS: Linux 2.6.32-358.6.2.el6.x86_64 amd64 $ gradle To honour the JVM settings for this build a new JVM will be forked. Please consider using the daemon: http://gradle.org/docs/2.0/userguide/gradle_daemon.html. Building project 'core' with Scala version 2.10.1 :downloadWrapper BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 11.341 secs $ ./gradlew To honour the JVM settings for this build a new JVM will be forked. Please consider using the daemon: http://gradle.org/docs/2.0/userguide/gradle_daemon.html. Building project 'core' with Scala version 2.10.1 :downloadWrapper UP-TO-DATE BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 7.159 secs {quote} I don't mind amending the patch to reflect a lower version, but 2.0 and 2.2 both appear to work on my end, while 1.8 and 1.12 don't. > Readme should specify that Gradle 2.0 is required for initial bootstrap > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-1781 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1781 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: build > Affects Versions: 0.8.2 > Reporter: Jean-Francois Im > Priority: Blocker > Fix For: 0.8.2 > > Attachments: gradle-2.0-readme.patch > > > Current README.md says "You need to have gradle installed." > As the bootstrap procedure doesn't work with gradle 1.12, this needs to say > that 2.0 or greater is needed. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)