I had a lot of hurdles to make Hibernate ORM run and build on Mac OS X and IntelliJ IDEA
so here are a few tidbits:
I give Gradle 1GB
export GRADLE_OPTS="-Xmx1024M"
Gradle hangs on me after ~ 2300 to 2400 tests for hibernate-core subsystem. Basically at
least one of the worker hangs for ever.
To work around that I forced Gradle to use one thread
./gradlew -no-daemon --parallel-threads 1 clean test
IntelliJ IDEA does not import ORM properly on Mac OS X. I tried both to run IDEA with Java
6 (default) and Java 7 (hacked). The way around that is to use `./gradlew idea` and open
the project in the IDE. You then have to manually add the generated source directory in a
few modules.
Things are explained here:
https://community.jboss.org/wiki/ContributingToHibernateUsingIntelliJ
Emmanuel