Are you building on a remote filesystem like NFS? Those .DS_Store files
get created by the finder
and can cause problems on remote filesystems where they become visible
to other software.
There is a way to disable creation of .DS_Store on remote filesystems
documented at
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1629
- Michael
On 09/01/13 03:30, David Chase wrote:
I had a failure building on a Mac (Mountain Lion, 10.8.2), both new build and
old build, at this step:
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
-XX:-PrintVMOptions -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:-LogVMOutput
-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx512m -Xms512m -XX:PermSize=32m
-XX:MaxPermSize=160m -jar
/Users/dr2chase/work/jdk8tl/build/macosx-x86_64/../macosx-x86_64-debug/btjars/buildmetaindex.jar
\
-o meta-index *.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String
index out of range: -7
at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1958)
at
build.tools.buildmetaindex.JarMetaIndex.isPrefixKnown(BuildMetaIndex.java:317)
at
build.tools.buildmetaindex.JarMetaIndex.getMetaIndex(BuildMetaIndex.java:233)
at
build.tools.buildmetaindex.BuildMetaIndex.main(BuildMetaIndex.java:97)
I did some snooping, and this was the problem:
firstSlashIndex = 5, name = javax/.DS_Store
I.E. I must have visited a directory in the Finder or some such, and it created
a .DS_Store file for me.
Joy.
And it turns out, using the usual command for getting rid of them, that they
are getting recreated again, very quickly.
find . -name .DS_Store -exec rm '{}' \;
find . -name .DS_Store -print
the second command would find things to print.
I closed all my finder and spotlight windows, deleted again, and it stayed
deleted, and my build succeeded.
I think this also explains mystery failures (directory not empty) in various
attempts at make clean.
I plan to look into a "solution" that redirects .DS_Store files into a separate
directory:
http://asepsis.binaryage.com/#about
Just a heads up. I'm not sure whether it makes sense to harden the build
against this or not; it seems like a royal pain.
David
