gradle build error on jcenter() method not found

[guitarpicva]

I commented that line out of the build.gradle file and it appeared to work then, but I fear I have probably just ended up with an incomplete library.

ab4mw@shack:~/src/nrjavaserial$ gradle --info build
Starting Build
Settings evaluated using empty settings script.
Projects loaded. Root project using build file '/home/ab4mw/src/nrjavaserial/build.gradle'.
Included projects: [root project 'nrjavaserial']
Evaluating root project 'nrjavaserial' using build file '/home/ab4mw/src/nrjavaserial/build.gradle'.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/home/ab4mw/src/nrjavaserial/build.gradle' line: 41

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'nrjavaserial'.
> Could not find method jcenter() for arguments [] on root project 'nrjavaserial'.

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 5.408 secs

[MrDOS]

jcenter() is a reference to the Bintray Maven repository located at http://jcenter.bintray.com/. If the jcenter() method isn't defined for you, it can be manually included like this:

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    maven {
        url "https://jcenter.bintray.com"
    }
}

What version of Gradle are you running? I didn't realize the method was a recent addition.

As far as your concerns of an incomplete build, they're (happily) almost certainly unfounded: as the line in question just defines a repository, you'd get an error elsewhere in the process if a dependency couldn't be located because it existed in that repository. I believe the reference is currently included only for possible future developer convenience.

[guitarpicva]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Samuel Coleman notifications@github.com wrote:

repositories { mavenCentral() maven { url "https://jcenter.bintray.com" } }

Samuel,

Thank you for the speedy reply.

My gradle is ( as installed by Debian Jessie repository ):

ab4mw@shack:~/src/nrjavaserial/build/libs$ gradle -v

---

Gradle 1.5

Gradle build time: Wednesday, October 8, 2014 8:21:39 AM UTC Groovy: 1.8.6 Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.4 compiled on October 7 2014 Ivy: non official version JVM: 1.7.0_85 (Oracle Corporation 24.85-b03) OS: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 amd64

Mitch Winkle http://ewamjlu.blogspot.com ...How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him... 1 Kings 18 ESV

[guitarpicva]

The manual inclusion of the repository worked to eliminate my build error.

Many thanks,

Mitch

Mitch Winkle http://ewamjlu.blogspot.com ...How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him... 1 Kings 18 ESV

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Mitch Winkle mitchwinkle@gmail.com wrote:

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Samuel Coleman notifications@github.com wrote:

repositories { mavenCentral() maven { url "https://jcenter.bintray.com" } }

Samuel,

Thank you for the speedy reply.

My gradle is ( as installed by Debian Jessie repository ):

ab4mw@shack:~/src/nrjavaserial/build/libs$ gradle -v

---

Gradle 1.5

Gradle build time: Wednesday, October 8, 2014 8:21:39 AM UTC Groovy: 1.8.6 Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.4 compiled on October 7 2014 Ivy: non official version JVM: 1.7.0_85 (Oracle Corporation 24.85-b03) OS: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 amd64

Mitch Winkle http://ewamjlu.blogspot.com ...How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him... 1 Kings 18 ESV

[MrDOS]

Looks like the jcenter() method was added to incubation in 1.7 and stablized in 1.10.

If you'd like to be able to build the project sans modifications, I'd suggest using a newer Gradle version. On a Debian system, I'd pin the Sid package: the dependencies don't look too far-reaching so it should be pretty safe. If you're not comfortable doing that, it should also be pretty easy to get the official binary up and running: put the unarchived gradle-2.10 directory in /opt then symlink /opt/gradle-2.10/bin/gradle into /usr/local/bin. I haven't tried it but as long as Gradle will figure out where its home directory is by itself, it should work correctly.