I’m testing NiFi out on my local Gentoo installation to prepare for an implementation at work, and after a rather lengthy build/test process (“ten minutes” my fanny) ran into this error:
$ mvn clean install
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
...
'Script Engine' validated against 'ECMAScript' is invalid because Given value not found in allowed set 'Groovy, lua, python, ruby'
This error left me scratching my head. Nothing related to JavaScript/ECMAScript dependencies were mentioned anywhere. How would you get it, anyway? Webkit, I suppose…
Sudden epiphany: this is a new Gentoo installation, and this program, including the build script, is running Java. Gentoo doesn’t install Sun Oracle’s Java by default, but instead comes with IcedTea out of the box. It’s acceptable for some simple uses, but is buggy for any complex. (Minecraft is a great example where it just doesn’t work.) I haven’t used Java for anything yet, so I hadn’t installed the JDK yet. The build instructions specify JDK 1.7 or higher, but I didn’t think anything of it because I’m used to just having it installed.
echo "dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE" \
>> /etc/portage/package.license/file
emerge -av dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin
...
$ mvn clean install
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
...
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
Finally!
