Building gremlin-plugin for neo4j

Question

I'm trying to install the gremlin-plugin so I can use neo4django in python. I tried to follow the steps laid out at https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/gremlin-plugin but I haven't had any success.

I have

1. downloaded gremlin-plugin-master.zip
2. unzip gremlin-plugin-master.zip
3. cd gremlin-plugin-master/
4. mvn clean package

At which point, I receive a message which contains the following snippit

...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:compile (default-compile) on project neo4j-gremlin-plugin: Compilation failure
[ERROR] /home/mint/Downloads/gremlin-plugin-master/src/main/java/org/neo4j/server/plugin/gremlin/GremlinPlugin.java:[79,23] method autoStartTransaction in class com.tinkerpop.blueprints.impls.neo4j2.Neo4j2Graph cannot be applied to given types;
[ERROR] required: boolean
[ERROR] found: no arguments
[ERROR] reason: actual and formal argument lists differ in length
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
....

Does anybody know what this means? I couldn't find anything that seemed to match this kind of error in this context and I have no idea where to start debugging this.

$ mvn -v
    Apache Maven 3.0.4
    Maven home: /usr/share/maven
    Java version: 1.7.0_51, vendor: Oracle Corporation
    Java home: /usr/lib/jdk1.7.0_51/jre
    Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
    OS name: "linux", version: "3.11.0-12-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

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EDIT:

After cloning the repo, I was able to compile.

Answer 1

Fresh clone of the repo solved the issue.