[KAFKA-1540] Gradle error "Could not create task of type 'ScalaDoc'"

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Component/s: build

Environment

java -version
java version "1.8.0_05"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_05-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.5-b02, mixed mode)

uname -a:
Darwin jkoshy 13.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 13.2.0: Thu Apr 17 23:03:13 PDT 2014; root:xnu-2422.100.13~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Joel Jacob Koshy
• Created: 16/Jul/14 00:15
• Updated: 25/Jun/15 17:33
• Resolved: 25/Jun/15 17:33

Description

See environment for more details.

Seems to be triggered by Java 1.8. 1.6 and 1.7 are fine.

./gradlew jar
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=512m; support was removed in 8.0
The TaskContainer.add() method has been deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in Gradle 2.0. Please use the create() method instead.
Building project 'core' with Scala version 2.8.0

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/Users/jkoshy/Projects/kafka/build.gradle' line: 192

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'kafka'.
> 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: 11.648 secs