I working with jabref (https://github.com/JabRef/jabref).  I'll post my issues here in case they make good items for the HowTo.

First issue seems to be that it wants to package up a jar with all deps using "fatjar":

// enables fatjar, the creation of a jar with all dependencies bundled inside
buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'eu.appsatori:gradle-fatjar-plugin:0.2'
    }
}
apply plugin: 'fatjar'
fatJar {
    classifier 'fat'
    manifest {
        attributes 'Main-Class': "net.sf.jabref.JabRefMain"
    }
}


So presumably we want to change this to a standard jar mechanism?  For now I've simply removed this whole section.


Next issue:

+ gradle-local

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/builddir/build/BUILD/jabref-v_2.11b3/build.gradle' line: 81

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'JabRef'.
> Could not import Ant build file '/builddir/build/BUILD/jabref-v_2.11b3/build-wrapper.xml'.


Using the --stacktrace option showed that the issue was a missing jarbundler:

/builddir/build/BUILD/jabref-v_2.11b3/build.xml:522: taskdef class net.sourceforge.jarbundler.JarBundler cannot be found

However, adding BR jarbundler doesn't appear to help.

jarbundler was only used for building OSX packages it seems, to I removed that from build.xml.

I've just added initial section about Gradle and I will look into expanding it in future. https://fedorahosted.org/released/javapackages/doc/#gradle

Great.  What does the -s flag do?

(In reply to Orion Poplawski from comment #4)
> Great.  What does the -s flag do?

-s, --stacktrace
Print out the stacktrace for all exceptions.

When your build fails for some reason, you'll get stack trace instead of vague error message.

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