Hi, in the past, it was possible to build Neo4j by just following the README (https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/blob/2.3/README.asciidoc), but nowadays it seems you need special knowledge.
Environment: $ java -version java version "1.8.0_45" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_45-b14) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.45-b02, mixed mode) $ mvn -version Apache Maven 3.0.5 Maven home: /usr/share/maven Java version: 1.8.0_45, vendor: Oracle Corporation Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre Default locale: de_DE, platform encoding: UTF-8 OS name: "linux", version: "3.19.0-22-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix" $ git clone g...@github.com:neo4j/neo4j.git $ cd neo4j $ git checkout 2.2 $ MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m" mvn -U clean install -DminimalBuild -DskipTests -DskipBrowser Result is [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Reactor Summary: [INFO] [INFO] Neo4j ............................................. SUCCESS [11.948s] [INFO] Neo4j - Licensing configuration ................... SUCCESS [4.251s] [INFO] Neo4j - Unsafe Access ............................. SUCCESS [3.297s] [INFO] Neo4j - Primitive Collections ..................... SUCCESS [7.690s] [INFO] Neo4j - IO ........................................ SUCCESS [2.477s] [INFO] Neo4j - CSV reading and parsing ................... SUCCESS [1.138s] [INFO] Neo4j - Graph Database Kernel ..................... SUCCESS [40.400s] [INFO] Neo4j - JMX support ............................... SUCCESS [3.701s] [INFO] Neo4j - Usage Data Collection ..................... SUCCESS [5.207s] [INFO] Neo4j - Monitor Logging ........................... SUCCESS [0.609s] [INFO] Neo4j - Graphviz generation ....................... SUCCESS [0.775s] [INFO] Neo4j - Lucene Index .............................. SUCCESS [1.748s] [INFO] Neo4j - Graph Algorithms .......................... SUCCESS [1.437s] [INFO] Neo4j - Graph Matching ............................ SUCCESS [0.480s] [INFO] Neo4j - Community Cypher Build .................... SUCCESS [21.119s] [INFO] Neo4j - Cypher Compiler 2.2 ....................... SUCCESS [4:54.095s] [INFO] Neo4j - Cypher .................................... SUCCESS [1:05.537s] [INFO] Neo4j - Consistency Checker ....................... SUCCESS [2.360s] [INFO] Neo4j - Community ................................. SUCCESS [1.456s] [INFO] Neo4j - Community ................................. SUCCESS [0.079s] [INFO] Neo4j - Generic shell ............................. SUCCESS [2.449s] [INFO] Neo4j - Import Command Line Tool .................. SUCCESS [0.592s] [INFO] Neo4j - Examples .................................. SUCCESS [4.787s] [INFO] Neo4j - Server API ................................ SUCCESS [1.339s] [INFO] Neo4j - Server .................................... SUCCESS [3:17.335s] [INFO] Neo4j - Test Harness .............................. SUCCESS [4.366s] [INFO] Neo4j - Server Plugin Tests ....................... SUCCESS [0.416s] [INFO] Neo4j - Server Examples ........................... SUCCESS [7.269s] [INFO] Neo4j - GraphGist ................................. SUCCESS [9.260s] [INFO] Neo4j - Cypher Documentation ...................... FAILURE [8.131s] [INFO] Neo4j - Cypher Reference Card Tests ............... SKIPPED [INFO] Neo4j - Cypher Compiler 2.2 for scala 2.11 ........ SKIPPED [INFO] Neo4j - Community Build ........................... SKIPPED [INFO] Neo4j - Graph DB Monitoring and Management tools .. SKIPPED [INFO] Neo4j - Advanced .................................. SKIPPED [INFO] Neo4j - Advanced Server ........................... SKIPPED [INFO] Neo4j - Advanced Build ............................ SKIPPED [INFO] Neo4j - Query Logging ............................. SKIPPED [INFO] Neo4j - Communication Package ..................... SKIPPED [INFO] Neo4j - Clustering Infrastructure ................. SKIPPED [INFO] Neo4j - Backup Tool ............................... SKIPPED [INFO] Neo4j - High Availability ......................... SKIPPED [INFO] Neo4j - Enterprise ................................ SKIPPED [INFO] Neo4j - Enterprise Server ......................... SKIPPED [INFO] Neo4j - Enterprise Performance Tests .............. SKIPPED [INFO] Neo4j - Enterprise Build .......................... SKIPPED [INFO] Neo4j - Integration Tests ......................... SKIPPED [INFO] Neo4j - Stress Tests .............................. SKIPPED [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Same with JDK 7 btw.: $ java -version java version "1.7.0_79" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.5.5) (7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu1) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.79-b02, mixed mode) $ mvn -version Apache Maven 3.0.5 Maven home: /usr/share/maven Java version: 1.7.0_79, vendor: Oracle Corporation Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre Default locale: de_DE, platform encoding: UTF-8 OS name: "linux", version: "3.19.0-22-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix" There's a Github issue remotely related to this where the same build goal fails but with a different error message: https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/issues/3883 Does anyone know what to do to make it build sucessfully? 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