Making Grails on Fedora 14 works (native2ascii issue)

If you try to run a fresh Grails project on a F14 default install, with the default OpenJdk, as a result you’ll get this error


Error executing script RunApp: : Error starting Sun's native2ascii:
: Error starting Sun's native2ascii:

that’s because by default the JAVA_HOME environment variable points to the JRE path instead of the JDK.

To fix it you could just set the JAVA_HOME to the right path issuing a

export JAVA_HOME=/etc/alternatives/java_sdk

and putting in your /etc/profile.d scripts, or just fixing the java configuration file /etc/java/java.conf and uncommenting the following line:

JAVA_HOME=$JVM_ROOT/java

Happy Grails coding!

Groovy 1.5.4 packages for Fedora 7 and Fedora 8

Apr 27, 2008 Update: My (updated) groovy packages are now available in the groovy download page.

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Starting from the openSUSE packages made by Alexander Egger (and that you can find on the Groovy site), I’ve packaged the latest Groovy version (1.5.4) for Fedora 7 and Fedora 8.

You can dowload the rpm and the .src.rpm at the following links.

groovy-1.5.4-2.noarch.rpm

groovy-1.5.4-2.src.rpm

and here’s my GPG Key to verify the packages signature.

Please notice that to make groovy properly works after installing the rpm, you have to run the /etc/profile.d/groovy.sh or /etc/profile.d/groovy.csh (according to your shell) script, or simply open a new shell!