How to build Maven package from source rpm?

[Alex C]

Greetings,

I've been trying to build Groovy from the Fedora 17 srpm on CentOS and
Amazon Linux. I've a fair degree of rpm knowledge and started to download
and build the relevant build dependencies.

Things started well and I could build the first few dependencies, however,
when I got to Maven I noticed that it has itself as a build dependency. I
would appreciate any guidance on how to proceed and build Maven from source
rpm.

Thanks

Alex

[Mikolaj Izdebski]

Hi,
> Things started well and I could build the first few dependencies, however, when I got to Maven I noticed that it has itself as a build dependency. I would appreciate any guidance on how to proceed and build Maven from source rpm.

You could use maven binary RPM from Fedora to bootstrap maven on your system.
Once it's built you can rebuild maven with iself.

Hope that helps,
Mikolaj Izdebski
maven maintainer

[Alex C]

Hi again,

On Nov 23, 2012 2:15 PM, "Mikolaj Izdebski"  wrote:
> You could use maven binary RPM from Fedora to bootstrap maven on your system.
> Once it's built you can rebuild maven with iself.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Mikolaj Izdebski
> maven maintainer

Thanks for the suggestion I will give it a try. However I would still
be interested to know the 'official' steps for the build, for example
if no existing binary package was available?

Thanks,

Alex.

[Mikolaj Izdebski]

> Thanks for the suggestion I will give it a try. However I would still
> be interested to know the 'official' steps for the build, for example
> if no existing binary package was available?

Then you would need to compile Maven some other way (Maven distribution
includes Ant build.xml script that can be used to bootstrap it).
Once you have your working maven package you can rebuild it without
bootstrapping.

Another (easier) option would be using binaries provided by upstream.
Just package them and use to properly rebuild maven from sources.

Mikolaj