TaskExecutionException: Execution failed for task ':web:compileGeneratedWin'

[Kevin Rushforth]

> I suggest that if we can't fix the bug quickly, we print out a message 
> that we require gradle 1.8 and exit.  We should let people override 
> this choice in the properties file.

Good idea. We already print a warning if not gradle 1.8 so it would be 
easy to fail the build instead (perhaps we could also allow 1.9 since 
that is reported to work).

-- Kevin




Stephen F Northover wrote:
> We fail on gradle 1.11.  I have filed this bug: 
> https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-36330
>
> I suggest that if we can't fix the bug quickly, we print out a message 
> that we require gradle 1.8 and exit.  We should let people override 
> this choice in the properties file.
>
> Steve
>
> On 2014-03-21 7:47 AM, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
>> This was a gradle 1.4 bug that is fixed in 1.8: 
>> http://issues.gradle.org/browse/GRADLE-2831
>>
>> Leonid just happened to be running an older gradle.
>>
>> -- Kevin
>>
>>
>> Stephen F Northover wrote:
>>> Was this gradle 1.8 or a problem with an EA version of JDK8?  In any 
>>> case, update both.  If you can't, doing a clean every time should 
>>> work but that's not the long term answer.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> On 2014-03-21 5:49 AM, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
>>>> Are you using gradle 1.8? This looks like a bug we used to have 
>>>> with prior versions of gradle.
>>>>
>>>> -- Kevin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Leonid Popov wrote:
>>>>> Hi, I updated my workspace recently, tried to build it and have 
>>>>> got the following exception. Any suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>>  FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
>>>>>
>>>>>  * What went wrong:
>>>>>  Execution failed for task ':web:compileGeneratedWin'.
>>>>>  > java.lang.ClassFormatError: Invalid Constant Pool entry Type 18
>>>>>
>>>>>  * Exception is:
>>>>>  org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskExecutionException: Execution failed for 
>>>>> task ':web:compileGeneratedWin'.
>>>>>
>>>
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