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Gwen Shapira commented on KAFKA-2124: ------------------------------------- Yep yep. Known issue and documented in the README. We can't package the gradle jar in our repository (since we end up with a binary in our source distro). The solution is for you to download Gradle and run it prior to running gradlew. > gradlew is not working on a fresh checkout > ------------------------------------------ > > Key: KAFKA-2124 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2124 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: build > Reporter: Jakob Homan > > For a fresh checkout, the gradlew script is not working: > {noformat}heimdallr 15:54 $ asfclone kafka > Cloning into 'kafka'... > remote: Counting objects: 25676, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (36/36), done. > remote: Total 25676 (delta 5), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 25627 > Receiving objects: 100% (25676/25676), 19.58 MiB | 4.29 MiB/s, done. > Resolving deltas: 100% (13852/13852), done. > Checking connectivity... done. > /tmp/kafka /tmp > /tmp > ✔ /tmp > heimdallr 15:54 $ cd kafka > ✔ /tmp/kafka [trunk|✔] > heimdallr 15:54 $ ./gradlew tasks > Error: Could not find or load main class > org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain{noformat} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)