Buiding hibernate-orm from the source in GitHub

Question

I am trying to build the hibernate-orm from the source in GitHub: https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm.

I followed the "quickstart" guideline, in the GitHub site:

git clone git://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm.git
cd hibernate-orm
./gradlew clean build
The build requires a Java 8 JDK as JAVA_HOME, but will ensure Java 6  compatibility.

However, I got the following error:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• Where:

Build file '/Users/salee/git/hibernate-orm/build.gradle' line: 291

• What went wrong:

A problem occurred configuring project ':hibernate-c3p0'.

A problem occurred configuring project ':hibernate-core'.

Cannot get property 'absolutePath' on null object

Would anyone help me?

Answer 1

This sounds like a broken build. In which case, your best option may be to raise an issue in Hibernate's GitHub project and attach the output of

./gradlew --stacktrace clean build

Alternatively, pull the latest code and try again. It seems unlikely that the build will stay broken for long and it may already have been fixed.