Building Grafana from source on Mac fails with tar exit code 1

Grafana Plugin Development
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Hey there,

I decided to adjust grafana’s codebase a little to fit my needs. This has worked well; I could locally test my changes and now I want to build a binary from it so I can deploy it to a production server.

The Documentation http://docs.grafana.org/project/building_from_source/#creating-optimized-release-packages tells me to run this command:
go run build.go build package

Which I do, but it fails on my Mac. More specifically, the tar -C command produces an exit code 1. Calling man tar on Mac reveals that this may be due to an implementation detail with the -C flag:
The -C dir option may differ from historic implementations.

Are you aware of this error? Do you have any solutions or suggestions?

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The packaging build task is only for Linux and Windows binaries.

To build on MacOS, is a different process. It is just a normal build from source and then copy the files to the right places.

Homebrew takes care of that for us:

This part copies the files to the correct folders (grafana_server to bin, the ini files to etc/grafana etc.) See this part of the script: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/grafana.rb#L34-L41

What sort of package are you trying to build?