0.12-rc4 tar.gz does not build

[ryoon]

The source code from 0.12-rc4 tar.gz fails to build with the following error.
0.12-rc4 tar.gz has no .git_archival.txt file.

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BUILD FAILED
/usr/tmp/pkgsrc/devel/opengrok/work/OpenGrok-0.12-rc5/build.xml:238: Warning: Could not find file /usr/tmp/pkgsrc/devel/opengrok/work/OpenGrok-0.12-rc5/.git_archival.txt to copy.

Total time: 11 seconds

[vladak]

The title says rc4 however the error message says rc5. Anyhow, I can reproduce the problem on both rc4 and rc5 tar.gz files.

[ryoon]

Sorry for your confusing.
I have tested rc5.

[vladak]

No worries. This happens because build.xml assumes either git repo or archived git repo and Github only archives bare sources.

[prlw1]

First time trying to "compile" opengrok, but I seem to see something similar to this old bug:

$ tar -xzf opengrok-1.1rc38.tar.gz -C /tmp
$ cd /tmp/opengrok-1.1-rc38/
$ mvn compile
...
[INFO] OpenGrok 1.1-rc38 .................................. SUCCESS [  0.430 s]
[INFO] OpenGrok Indexer ................................... FAILURE [  9.540 s]
...
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-antrun-plugin:1.8:run (update-build-info) on project opengrok: An Ant BuildException has occured: The following error occurred while executing this line:
[ERROR] /tmp/opengrok-1.1-rc38/opengrok-indexer/build.xml:85: Warning: Could not find file /tmp/opengrok-1.1-rc38/.git_archival.txt to copy.
[ERROR] around Ant part ...<ant target="-update-build-info"/>... @ 5:37 in /tmp/opengrok-1.1-rc38/opengrok-indexer/target/antrun/build-main.xml

[vladak]

Incidentally, there is PR #2313 which is removing handling of the .git_archival.txt file. As a workaround, I's suggest checking out the code via Git.