> 1. What does the maven-surefire-plugin exactly do? It still fails, but > not so much like without it.
You were already using Surefire, you just had not declared a specific version of the plugin to use, so you were probably using an earlier version that might have had a bug which is resolved in 2.12, or something along those lines. > 2. Is there a way to avoid running tests with maven depends on the OS if > I reach a level where > no independent solution exists like loading a C-lib for example, don't > care if it is a good idea? Stephen already answered this one. Add code which tests for the OS and bails (with a warning) if this test cannot be executed in the current OS. Wayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org