Maven build fails out of the box

[eliericha]

Hello,

Following the build instructions at the root of the repository, I ran mvn clean verify and got the following error:

bundleLocation not found: /Users/richa/.m2/repository/org/eclipse/orbit/bundles/com.ibm.icu/67.1.0-SNAPSHOT/com.ibm.icu-67.1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

According to this Tycho issue, this occurs when using Tycho 2.6.0 and 2.7.0+ over the same ~/.m2 Maven repository.

After digging in the Xtext POMs I found that Tycho 2.6.0 is being used because the default profile is r202203, and indeed I am using newer versions of Tycho in other projects. So to get a working build/test I had to run mvn -P latest clean verify to get Tycho 2.7.5 to be used.

I think I understand that we can't move away from Tycho 2.6.0 yet because of #1931.

Should this be documented in the build instructions for newcomers? Or is the plan to bump the default profile soon and the problem goes away?

Thanks.

[cdietrich]

can you run with -Dmaven.repo.local=somedir? the 1-maven-build.sh should already do it

[eliericha]

That works, but it's a bulky solution. In any case even if that was the solution, I suggest to document it in case other people run into the same issue.

[cdietrich]

PR welcome

[cdietrich]

docu was updated