[KAFKA-1940] Initial checkout and build failing

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.1.2
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.0.0
• Component/s: build
• Labels: build
• Environment: Groovy: 1.8.6; Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.2 compiled on July 8 2013; Ivy: 2.2.0; JVM: 1.8.0_25 (Oracle Corporation 25.25-b02); OS: Windows 7 6.1 amd64
• Assignee: Martin Lemanski
• Reporter: Martin Lemanski
• Reviewer: Jun Rao
• Created: 10/Feb/15 20:19
• Updated: 28/Apr/15 02:37
• Resolved: 28/Apr/15 02:37

Description

when performing `gradle wrapper` and `gradlew build` as a "new" developer, I get an exception:

C:\development\git\kafka>gradlew build --stacktrace
<...>
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':core:compileScala'.
> com.typesafe.zinc.Setup.create(Lcom/typesafe/zinc/ScalaLocation;Lcom/typesafe/zinc/SbtJars;Ljava/io/File;)Lcom/typesaf
e/zinc/Setup;

Details: https://gist.github.com/mlem/ddff83cc8a25b040c157

Current Commit:

C:\development\git\kafka>git rev-parse --verify HEAD
71602de0bbf7727f498a812033027f6cbfe34eb8

I am evaluating kafka for my company and wanted to run some tests with it, but couldn't due to this error. I know gradle can be tricky and it's not easy to setup everything correct, but this kind of bugs turns possible commiters/users off.