Cservenak, Tamas created SUREFIRE-1588: ------------------------------------------
Summary: Surefire 2.22.1 (and maybe other versions too) are broken on latest Ubuntu Java8 Key: SUREFIRE-1588 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1588 Project: Maven Surefire Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 2.22.1 Reporter: Cservenak, Tamas See issue [1], but in short: latest Java8 on Ubuntu family of Linuxes (am on Mint, Ubuntu derivative) contains this patch [2]. It enforces Class-Path entries as relative. Hence, surefire booter and rest of Maven classpath, that uses absolute URLs are simply discarded. [1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/jar/jar.html#classpath[1] [2] https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/rev/27135de165ac -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)