I checked out CVS sources of optional plugins and was trying to build them. It builds the first few and then chokes on appserver plugin; at this point maven kick me out, saying build failed. I append the output of a sample run.
Couple of questions though. If appserver is the first offending plugin, why does maven stop building the rest of the plugins. I see few reasons either the rest of the plugins depend on appserver (which I doubt is the case), there is a limitation to multiproject plugin where it can not for one reson or another determine the skippable builds or multiproject has a bug (should it be reported?) Thanks, Alex Script started on Thu Mar 25 08:55:28 2004 bash-2.05b$ ls -l [K[47@ maven -Dgoal=clean,plugin:install multiproject:goal bash-2.05b$ [27Pscript maven-build.output bash-2.05b$ maven -Dgoal=clean,plugin:install multiproject:goal __ __ | \/ |__ _Apache__ ___ | |\/| / _` \ V / -_) ' \ ~ intelligent projects ~ |_| |_\__,_|\_/\___|_||_| v. 1.1-SNAPSHOT Starting the reactor... Our processing order: Maven Announcement plugin Maven Ant Plug-in Maven Antlr Plugin Maven Appserver Plugin Maven Artifact Plug-in Maven Ashkelon Plug-in Maven AspectJ Plug-in Maven AspectWerkz Plug-in Maven Caller Plugin Maven Castor Plug-in Maven Changelog Plug-in Maven Changes Plug-in Maven Checkstyle Plug-in Maven Clean Plug-in Maven Clover Plug-in Maven CodeSwitcher Plugin Maven Console Plug-in Maven Cruise Control Plug-in Maven JUnit Report Plug-in Maven Dashboard Plugin Maven Deploy Plug-in Maven Developer Activity Plug-in Maven Distribution Plug-in Maven DocBook Plug-in Maven EAR Plugin Maven Eclipse Plug-in Maven EJB Plugin Maven example projects Maven FAQ Plug-in Maven File Activity Plug-in Maven Genapp Plugin Maven Gump Plug-in Maven Hibernate Plug-in Maven Html2XDoc Plug-in Maven IDEA Plug-in Maven J2EE Plugin Maven Jalopy Plugin Maven Jar Plug-in Maven Java Plug-in Maven Javacc Plugin Maven Javadoc Plug-in Maven JBoss Plug-in Maven JBuilder Plug-in Maven JCoverage plugin Maven JDEE Plug-in Maven JDepend Plugin Maven JDeveloper Plug-in Maven JDiff Plugin Maven JellyDoc Plug-in Maven Jetty plugin Maven JIRA Plug-in Maven JNLP Plug-in Maven JUnitDoclet Plug-in Maven JXR Plug-in Maven Latex Plug-in Maven Latka Plug-in Maven License Plug-in Maven LinkCheck Plug-in Maven MultiChanges plugin Maven Multi-Project Plug-in Maven Native Plug-in Maven NSIS Plug-in Maven PDF Plug-in Maven Perforce Plugin Maven Plugin Plugin Maven PMD Plug-in Maven POM Plugin Maven Release Plug-in Maven Repository Plug-in Maven Source Control Management Plug-in Maven Shell Plug-in Maven Simian Plugin Maven Site Plugin Maven StatCvs Plug-in Maven Struts Plugin Maven Tasklist Plug-in Maven Test Plug-in Maven TJDO plugin Maven Touchstone Plug-in Maven Touchstone Partner Plug-in Maven Uberjar Plugin Maven VDoclet Plug-in Maven WAR Plugin Maven Webserver Plugin Maven Wizard Plug-in Maven XDoc Plug-in +---------------------------------------- | Executing clean,plugin:install Maven Announcement plugin | Memory: 5M/9M +---------------------------------------- build:start: multiproject:goal: build:start: clean:clean: [delete] Deleting directory /home/alex/maven-plugins/announcement/target clean: plugin: java:prepare-filesystem: [mkdir] Created dir: /home/alex/maven-plugins/announcement/target/classes java:compile: [echo] Compiling to /home/alex/maven-plugins/announcement/target/classes [javac] Compiling 1 source file to /home/alex/maven-plugins/announcement/target/classes java:jar-resources: Copying 1 file to /home/alex/maven-plugins/announcement/target/classes/META-INF Copying 1 file to /home/alex/maven-plugins/announcement/target/classes/plugin-resources Copying 4 files to /home/alex/maven-plugins/announcement/target/classes test:prepare-filesystem: [mkdir] Created dir: /home/alex/maven-plugins/announcement/target/test-classes [mkdir] Created dir: /home/alex/maven-plugins/announcement/target/test-reports test:test-resources: test:compile: [echo] No test source files to compile. test:test: [echo] No tests to run. jar:jar: [jar] Building jar: /home/alex/maven-plugins/announcement/target/maven-announcement-plugin-1.0.jar aspectj:init: [copy] Copying 1 file to /home/alex/.maven/repository/maven/plugins plugin:install: [delete] Deleting 1 files from /usr/local/maven/plugins [delete] Deleting 14 files from /home/alex/.maven/plugins [delete] Deleted 7 directories from /home/alex/.maven/plugins [copy] Copying 1 file to /usr/local/maven/plugins +---------------------------------------- | Executing clean,plugin:install Maven Ant Plug-in | Memory: 11M/14M +---------------------------------------- build:end: build:start: clean:clean: [delete] Deleting directory /home/alex/maven-plugins/ant/target clean: plugin: java:prepare-filesystem: [mkdir] Created dir: /home/alex/maven-plugins/ant/target/classes java:compile: [echo] Compiling to /home/alex/maven-plugins/ant/target/classes [echo] No java source files to compile. java:jar-resources: Copying 1 file to /home/alex/maven-plugins/ant/target/classes/META-INF Copying 1 file to /home/alex/maven-plugins/ant/target/classes/plugin-resources Copying 4 files to /home/alex/maven-plugins/ant/target/classes test:prepare-filesystem: [mkdir] Created dir: /home/alex/maven-plugins/ant/target/test-classes [mkdir] Created dir: /home/alex/maven-plugins/ant/target/test-reports test:test-resources: test:compile: test:test: jar:jar: [jar] Building jar: /home/alex/maven-plugins/ant/target/maven-ant-plugin-1.6.jar aspectj:init: [copy] Copying 1 file to /home/alex/.maven/repository/maven/plugins plugin:install: [delete] Deleting 1 files from /usr/local/maven/plugins [delete] Deleting 8 files from /home/alex/.maven/plugins [delete] Deleted 4 directories from /home/alex/.maven/plugins [copy] Copying 1 file to /usr/local/maven/plugins +---------------------------------------- | Executing clean,plugin:install Maven Antlr Plugin | Memory: 11M/14M +---------------------------------------- build:end: build:start: clean:clean: [delete] Deleting directory /home/alex/maven-plugins/antlr/target clean: plugin: java:prepare-filesystem: [mkdir] Created dir: /home/alex/maven-plugins/antlr/target/classes java:compile: [echo] Compiling to /home/alex/maven-plugins/antlr/target/classes [echo] No java source files to compile. java:jar-resources: Copying 1 file to /home/alex/maven-plugins/antlr/target/classes/META-INF Copying 4 files to /home/alex/maven-plugins/antlr/target/classes test:prepare-filesystem: [mkdir] Created dir: /home/alex/maven-plugins/antlr/target/test-classes [mkdir] Created dir: /home/alex/maven-plugins/antlr/target/test-reports test:test-resources: test:compile: [echo] No test source files to compile. test:test: [echo] No tests to run. jar:jar: [jar] Building jar: /home/alex/maven-plugins/antlr/target/maven-antlr-plugin-1.2-SNAPSHOT.jar aspectj:init: [copy] Copying 1 file to /home/alex/.maven/repository/maven/plugins plugin:install: [delete] Deleting 1 files from /usr/local/maven/plugins [delete] Deleting 7 files from /home/alex/.maven/plugins [delete] Deleted 2 directories from /home/alex/.maven/plugins [copy] Copying 1 file to /usr/local/maven/plugins +---------------------------------------- | Executing clean,plugin:install Maven Appserver Plugin | Memory: 12M/14M +---------------------------------------- build:end: build:start: clean:clean: [delete] Deleting directory /home/alex/maven-plugins/appserver/target clean: plugin: java:prepare-filesystem: [mkdir] Created dir: /home/alex/maven-plugins/appserver/target/classes BUILD FAILED File...... file:/home/alex/.maven/plugins/maven-multiproject-plugin-1.2/plugin.jelly Element... maven:reactor Line...... 202 Column.... 9 Unable to obtain goal [plugin] -- file:/home/alex/.maven/plugins/maven-antlr-plugin-1.2-SNAPSHOT/plugin.jelly:45:59: <maven:addPath> java.lang.NullPointerException Total time: 16 seconds Finished at: Thu Mar 25 08:55:50 EST 2004 bash-2.05b$ ls-l Script done on Thu Mar 25 08:55:57 2004 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