Problem with Gradle and UNC path under Jenkins

Got this error after moving %JENKINS_HOME% to a UNC from a local directory. Any idea how to fix this? We use Windows server 2008 and it seems like there is no way to do hard link to a UNC under Server 2008. Has anyone ran into this problem?

All the build tools are stored under \\UNCPath\BuildTools

%JENKINS_HOME% = \\UNCPath\JenkinsHome

[workspace] $ cmd.exe /C \\UNCPath\BuildTools\gradle\1.0\bin\gradle.bat clean jar cobertura test groovyDoc && exit %%ERRORLEVEL%% '\\UNCPath\JenkinsHome\jobs\Project\workspace' CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory. UNC paths are not supported. 开发者_高级运维Defaulting to Windows directory. java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI has an authority component at java.io.File.(File.java:368) at org.gradle.api.internal.AbstractClassPathProvider$ClassPathScanner.find(AbstractClassPathProvider.java:146) at org.gradle.api.internal.AbstractClassPathProvider.findClassPath(AbstractClassPathProvider.java:80) at org.gradle.api.internal.DefaultClassPathRegistry.getClassPathFiles(DefaultClassPathRegistry.java:44) at org.gradle.api.internal.DefaultClassPathRegistry.getClassPathUrls(DefaultClassPathRegistry.java:35) at org.gradle.launcher.ProcessBootstrap.runNoExit(ProcessBootstrap.java:38) at org.gradle.launcher.ProcessBootstrap.run(ProcessBootstrap.java:28) at org.gradle.launcher.GradleMain.main(GradleMain.java:24) Recording test results Publishing Javadoc Skipping Cobertura coverage report as build was not UNSTABLE or better ... Finished: FAILURE Blockquote

Gradle may not be able to handle UNC paths, not sure on that one. What you could do, since you are using Win2008 is use a sym link

mklink /D c:\jenkins_home \\UNCPath\BuildTools

Then set %JENKINS_HOME% = c:\jenkins_home

cmd.exe doesn't support UNC paths. You have to use PowerShell instead.

Map a drive won't work. %JENKINS_HOME% doesn't like a mapped drive letter. However, I just found this link to do registry change and the check for UNC is eliminated.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/156276

Now I have an URI problem:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI has an authority component at java.io.File.(File.java:368) at org.gradle.api.internal.AbstractClassPathProvider$ClassPathScanner.find(AbstractClassPathProvider.java:146) at org.gradle.api.internal.AbstractClassPathProvider.findClassPath(AbstractClassPathProvider.java:80) at org.gradle.api.internal.DefaultClassPathRegistry.getClassPathFiles(DefaultClassPathRegistry.java:44) at org.gradle.api.internal.DefaultClassPathRegistry.getClassPathUrls(DefaultClassPathRegistry.java:35) at org.gradle.launcher.ProcessBootstrap.runNoExit(ProcessBootstrap.java:38) at org.gradle.launcher.ProcessBootstrap.run(ProcessBootstrap.java:28) at org.gradle.launcher.GradleMain.main(GradleMain.java:24)

Why don't you map a drive letter?

net use X: \UNCPath\BuildTools

x:\script.bat

net use X: /d