groovy @1.7.5 Compile error - build failure

[lyle2.0+macports@…]

Upgrading (or uninstalling/reinstalling) Groovy fails as follows:

$ sudo port install groovy
--->  Computing dependencies for groovy
--->  Building groovy
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command failed (see log for details)
Log for groovy is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_java_groovy/main.log
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

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Error log

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Cc Me!

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Cc Me!

[breskeby@…]

I had a look at it and wondering why its compiling on my machine. Instead of getting a compiler error, I just got a warning:

-stagedcompile-groovy:
  [groovyc] Compiling 164 source files to /Users/Rene/temp/testgroovy/groovy-1.7.5/target/classes
  [groovyc] /var/folders/Vz/VzNG-a66FeetbrNeL6mWhk+++TM/-Tmp-/groovy-generated-6886142433661346346-java-source/groovy/swing/SwingBuilder.java:21: warning: [deprecation] FactoryBuilderSupport(groovy.lang.Closure) in groovy.util.FactoryBuilderSupport has been deprecated
  [groovyc] super ((groovy.lang.Closure)null);
  [groovyc] ^
  [groovyc] Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations.
  [groovyc] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
  [groovyc] 1 warning

[breskeby@…]

I am not able to reproduce your problem. could you remove the jline lib from your m2 repository and retry it? I assume that there's a versioning issue with this lib here.

regards, René

[lyle2.0+macports@…]

Removing jline from my local maven repo did not fix the issue.

A little more investigation has me confused. Groovy 1.7.5 depends on jline 0.9.94 and is failing on a call to jline.ConsoleReader#setDefaultPrompt(String prompt). However, inspecting the actual jar file shipped with jline 0.9.94 doesn't show that method being defined at all.

$ pwd
/Users/ldhanson2/.m2/repository/jline/jline/0.9.94
$ jar tf jline-0.9.94.jar |grep ConsoleReader
jline/ConsoleReader.class
jline/ConsoleReaderInputStream$ConsoleEnumeration.class
jline/ConsoleReaderInputStream$ConsoleLineInputStream.class
jline/ConsoleReaderInputStream.class
$ javap jline.ConsoleReader|grep setDefault
$ 

The method is definitely in the source distribution for jline 0.9.94, but again does not appear in the jar file:

$ cd ~/Downloads/jline-0.9.94/src/src/main/java/jline/
$ grep setDefaultPrompt *
ConsoleReader.java:    public void setDefaultPrompt(String prompt) {

Compiling a trivial Java program which uses jline and trying to use the setDefaultPrompt method results in the same error. Am I missing something, or is this a problem with the jline distribution?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

groovy was updated to 1.8.0; do you still see the problem?

[lyle2.0+macports@…]

The problem was that apparently on my OS X installation there existed /Library/Java/Extensions/jline-0_9_5.jar, and that path is automatically added to the classpath so I was seeing strange results at compile-time as well as inaccurate results from javap stemming from this older version of jline. More explanation on the ​stackoverflow question I posed.

It's an unfortunate side-effect of the way Apple's Java installation is set up, so the issue can be closed.

[breskeby@…]

I resolved this issue with wontfix as the problem can still exists, but a port should not be the place to avoid this issue.

thanks for the feedback. regards, René