[NIFI-269] Unable to build on Mac OSX

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.0.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.0.2
• Component/s: Tools and Build
• Assignee: Joe Witt
• Reporter: Daniel Einspanjer
• Created: 15/Jan/15 17:51
• Updated: 03/Dec/19 00:53
• Resolved: 03/Feb/15 13:22

Description

I was attempting to build the latest NiFi from the develop branch on my Mac and received the following error:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin:2.5.2:single (make shared resource) on project nifi: Execution make shared resource of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin:2.5.2:single failed: user id '748104463' is too big ( > 2097151 ) -> [Help 1]

After a bit of research I found that this error can happen frequently on Macs and can be prevented by setting assembly.tarLongFileMode to posix rather than gnu.

I adjusted my pom.xml as described and the build worked fine. Might be worth one of the devs taking a look and determining if it has any detrimental effects.

See also an issue I found in the Phoenix project describing the same thing: PHOENIX-1503