Liferay Portal is not buildable from sources

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Hello, we have a problem when trying to build Liferay Portal from sources.

We followed the tutorial here: Building Liferay Source - Liferay Official Documentation - Liferay Learn

We were able to run the steps until the following command:
ant snapshot-bundle

This command runs but gives following error:

BUILD FAILED
C:\liferayfromsource\liferay-portal\build.xml:984: java.io.FileNotFoundException: https://releases-cdn.liferay.com/portal/snapshot-master/latest/liferay-portal-tomcat-master.7z.sha256
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)

It seems that the https://releases-cdn.liferay.com/portal/snapshot-master/latest/liferay-portal-tomcat-master.7z.sha256 or any of its mirrors are not available. Trying to access the URL gives an error Cannot GET /portal/snapshot-master/latest/liferay-portal-tomcat-master.7z.sha256. The folder /latest/ is not available in listing directory /portal/snapshot-master/

Thank you for your time

Are you building master, e.g. the current latest one, or are you building a previously released version? Background: since the source base moved to jakarta-ee, there was no release for portal (ce) yet. Though, I'd have expected the CI to have run this build and detect problems. Anyway, feels like a reasonable low hanging fruit to check first

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Hello, we are building from master branch forked from the latest version. Source files we used are available in github repository /liferay/liferay-portal

Could you try executing the 'ant all' and validate if the 'bundle' folder is generated successfully?

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Hi, we managed to run ant all and it succeeded in about 1h. This also generated a C:\liferayfromsource\bundles folder, which has Liferay bundle folders like \tomcat-10.1.48\ and \osgi\ .

It seems the command goes through and /bundles is generated correctly when using ant all, but fails when using tutorial Building Liferay Source - Liferay Official Documentation - Liferay Learn command ant snapshot-bundle