hacking on leiningen (improving bootstrap instructions) about leiningen

[technomancy]

Also the hacking instructions don't point out that you need to run the following still from the checkout directory

It sounds like you're using an older version. Recent versions do not require AOT compilation of leiningen any more. If you're seeing problems on the latest, could you paste a stack trace so we can debug?

[swannodette]

When trying to run:

lein deps

On my own project I get the following:

Leiningen is not installed. Please run "lein self-install".
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: clojure/main
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: clojure.main
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:319)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:330)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:254)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:399)

I can only get things to work with the following patch to bin/lein on leiningen/master.

    Modified bin/lein
diff --git a/bin/lein b/bin/lein
index 5612773..c02561f 100755
--- a/bin/lein
+++ b/bin/lein
@@ -31,9 +31,12 @@ if [ -r "$BIN_DIR/../src/leiningen/core.clj" ]; then
     LEIN_DIR="$(dirname "$BIN_DIR")"
     CLASSPATH="$LEIN_DIR/src:$LEIN_DIR/classes:$LEIN_DIR/lib:$LEIN_JAR:$CLASSPATH"
 
-    if [ ! -r "lib/leiningen*jar" -a ! -r "$LEIN_JAR" -a "$1" != "self-install" ]; then
+    if [ ! -r "$BIN_DIR/../lib/leiningen.jar" -a ! -r "$LEIN_JAR" -a "$1" != "self-install" ]; then
         echo "Leiningen is not installed. Please run \"lein self-install\"."
     fi
+    if [ -r "$BIN_DIR/../lib/leiningen.jar" ]; then
+        CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH:$BIN_DIR/../lib/leiningen.jar"
+    fi
 else
     # Not running from a checkout
     CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH:$LEIN_JAR"

[technomancy]

Pushed a fix; thanks.