After spending 2 whole workdays on it (this time), it's clearly time for help. Let's rewind to the core problem. I want to run javadoc and jxr reports with aggregates/non-aggregates and still be able to do release builds. Back in 2007 I opened a bug and even provided a zip file so it could be reproduced: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3336 Fast forward to the present and with Maven 2.0.9 and all the latest plugin versions. So the site is generated and all works great until we try to do an official release build for QA. If we didn't use release builds and versioning, which is at the core of Maven, all would be fine.
So my next approach was to take the reporting stuff out into a separate pom that inherits from the main pom and use mvn -f reporting.xml install site:site site:deploy This mostly worked, but would always run into some strange error even on pretty much identical configuration. It's like there a bunch of assumptions that fail when using the -f approach. I generated a pom using help:effective-pom to remove the complication of inheriting a pom and still I got strange errors. mvn -f reporting.xml help:effective-pom > orphan.xml [and removing the parent definition] I had errors from PMD "Failure executing PMD ... Can't use enum as a keyword in pre-JDK 1.5 target" which was really weird because I had removed PMD completely from the pom I was using and using effective-pom I verified that it had been removed. It's like one of those horror movies where the tv still comes on after it's unplugged. I guess maybe because the child projects inherit from the real parent pom, maybe that's how PMD finds it way back into the mix. I've seen messages like "[INFO] Unable to load parent project from a relative path: Could not find the model file", which is probably a flashing red symptom of different behavior when using mvn -f! Layout: /pom.xml /reporting.xml /child/pom.xml /child2/pom.xml So clearly -f is not going to work. The only idea I have left is that I haven't tried using the new syntax for config with 2.5 javadoc plugin, i.e http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-javadoc-plugin/examples/aggregate. html using "aggregate goal" instead of "aggregate parameter". Any other ideas? It's kind of a big deal risking breaking release builds and it may be a month before I can try again if it's not already too late. Paul Sundling --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
