On Aug 30, 2006, at 11:36 AM, Joe Bohn wrote:
We've been struggling with build problems on windows for some time
now and things just keep on getting worse.
I'm composing this note to summarize the problems that I'm aware of
with work-arounds and possible solutions. I'm also fishing to see
if anybody else has some ideas on how to resolve these issues.
1) Windows pathlength problem.
Problem:
There are miscellaneous failures that can typically be tracked down
to the windows pathlength problem. The nature of our repository
structure and deployment make this a big problem. It also seems
like we're continuing to add more intermediate elements in path
names as we try to get things more organized and conform to Maven 2
conventions.
Work-around:
The work-around is to keep the windows root path as small as
possible. I now typically build from a root path of c:\g to avoid
these problems.
Possible Solution:
For a longer term solution I'm planning to work on a new repository
implementation in 1.2 that that isn't as redundant or verbose.
I agree. Addressing this issue is overdue... I'd just been thinking
about adding it to the 1.2 list, also...
3) Openejb2 test failures.
Problem:
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException:
org.openejb.deployment.DeploymentTestSuite.getName()
Work-around:
After bootstrap failure cd to <root>\target\external\openejb2
"mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true"
cd back to <root>
"mvn clean install"
Possible solution:
Dain suggested adding the "getName" method to the test. However,
when I attempted this I hit other errors.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=geronimo-dev&m=115680051431478&w=2
I think it would be helpful if we could disable the openejb tests
until this problem is resolved.
It it's really useful, I guess it could be disabled. However, I think
we should live with the workaround. Whatever is causing this problem
needs to be identified and fixed. Is this a windows only problem? Or
a general problem?
4) Blue screen of death (bsod)
Building Geronimo may be the cause, but hard to fault Geronimo...
You're on your own with this one... :-P
--kevan
