Rat typically records the problem files in a list in a text file. If should show you the path for this file in the output of Maven.
-- Jacques Nadeau CTO and Co-Founder, Dremio On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Jim Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to build drill, and my build is failing. > > Reason: This is the failure: > Rat check: Summary of files. Unapproved: 1 unknown: 1 generated: 0 > approved: 1545 licence. > > Clearly there is an issue with a file that I have put into the project. > However, Rat is clearly not very articulate when it comes to telling me > what file is the cause of the problem. > > I know based on my personal experience that it is because the new test data > file I added has an extension that is not being excluded from license > check. > > Question: shouldn't all test data files (e.g. src/test/resources) be > excluded regardless of the extension they have? > > These files are only for build time and won't get packaged or distributed, > and are pretty much all getting excluded from the license check as it is. >
