Ah, sorry, I meant to include version info in my original mail. $ mvn --version Apache Maven 3.0.4 Maven home: /usr/share/maven Java version: 1.7.0_13, vendor: Oracle Corporation Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_13/jre Default locale: en_IE, platform encoding: UTF-8 OS name: "linux", version: "3.5.0-23-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"
I've placed the pom contents at https://gist.github.com/brk3/4981471 (unsure which field represents the plugin version...) -Paul On 18 February 2013 22:26, Anders Hammar <and...@hammar.net> wrote: > If you use version 3.0 of maven-compiler-plugin it should give you better > info if you use JDK 1.6+. You need to pin down the version of the plugin in > the pom. > > /Anders > > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Paul Bourke <pauldbou...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm having trouble where Maven is not showing compiler errors as one >> would expect. >> >> Take the following: >> >> ``` >> # Create a basic 'hello world' project >> $ mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app >> -DartifactId=my-app -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart >> -DinteractiveMode=false >> >> $ cd my-app/ >> >> # Add a syntax error >> $ sed -i 's/println/printl/g' src/main/java/com/mycompany/app/App.java >> >> # Try to compile >> $ mvn package >> ``` >> >> I get the following: >> >> ... >> [ERROR] Failed to execute goal >> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.0.2:compile >> (default-compile) on project my-app: Compilation failure >> [ERROR] >> /home/bourke/tmp/my-app/src/main/java/com/mycompany/app/App.java:[11,18] >> error: cannot find symbol >> [ERROR] -> [Help 1] >> ... >> >> It doesn't show me what symbol is wrong. Compare with the default javac >> output: >> >> $ javac src/main/java/com/mycompany/app/App.java >> src/main/java/com/mycompany/app/App.java:11: error: cannot find symbol >> System.out.printl( "Hello World!" ); >> ^ >> symbol: method printl(String) >> location: variable out of type PrintStream >> 1 error >> >> Obviously much more useful. >> >> Any help much appreciated. >> -Paul >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
