[documentation] Missing wiki page "Solving Build Failures" when following a link in the REAME

[sc0ttdav3y]

Your Environment

Web browser, viewing your README at this location on your master branch.

Expected Behavior

Your README has a link to "Solving Build Failures" but it goes to a 404. I'd expect to click the link to view the page.

Actual Behavior

Clicking the link goes to a 404.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Visit your README here
2. Click "Solving Build Failures"

Context

I've got a build failure and I'm trying to self-help.

Debug logs

N/A.

[christocracy]

If you've got a build failure, why are you not posting the error message?

[sc0ttdav3y]

No worries, I worked it out but wanted to let you know about the 404 so you can help others.

FYI my build problem was a crash in test-build.gradle on line 123 due to playServicesLocationVersion being null. It was null because I hadn't specified GOOGLE_API_VERSION anywhere. You might want to test that it's a string before splitting it, and advise the user to set the config var if it's null.

I hunted through code to work out how to fix that. I worked out that I could put it into my Cordova project's package.json under cordova.plugins.cordova-background-geolocation and set GOOGLE_API_VERSION to 21.+.

I'm not an Android expert through and this is a dependency of a dependency for me, so that involved a bit of guesswork to work out what value to insert.

I think perhaps the README should explicitly state that GOOGLE_API_VERSION needs to be set to something, and mention what the latest version is, for Android-bunnies like myself that doesn't even know what this setting really does.

Perhaps all that info is in the missing wiki page ;-)

Anyway, the build is working now. Thanks for the quick response.

Cheers, Scott

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