less compilation failed after installing v2.4 from bower

We have been using the admin-lte from quite long time. But, when we build our app last week and compiled the LESS file which depends on admin-lte LESS files, it failed.

ERROR

$ lessc assets/css/less/app.less assets/css/app.min.css --clean-css="--s1"
FileError: '../../../bower_components/bootstrap/less/mixins.less' wasn't found. Tried - {project_path}\assets\vendor\admin-lte\bower_components\bootstrap\less\mixins.less,{project_path}\bower_components\bootstrap\less\mixins.less,..\..\..\bower_components\bootstrap\less\mixins.less in {project_path}\assets\vendor\admin-lte\build\less\skins\skin-blue-light.less on line 5, column 1:
4  */
5 @import "../../../bower_components/bootstrap/less/mixins.less";
6 @import "../../../bower_components/bootstrap/less/variables.less";

Since bower installed the latest admin-lte(v2.4) which does not include the bower-components folder, when we compiled the LESS file it didn’t get the bootstrap mixins and variables file from bower_components folder.

Please help to fix this.

[elboletaire]

Also, why the hell are all the bower_components packaged with the plugin? This is insane 😞

[gauravdaxini]

Thanks @almasaeed2010 for providing a quick fix. However, I’m still facing the issue.

You have forgotten to update the bootstrap less dependency PATH in skin’s less file (some less file still contains ../../../bower_components/bootstrap/less/mixins.less path which does not exist) which is causing the failure while compiling the less file.

Please help to fix this.