Error in multimodule project gives very misleading error messages
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Key: MJAVADOC-102
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MJAVADOC-102
Project: Maven 2.x Javadoc Plugin
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 2.0
Environment: Windows XP
Sun Java 1.5.0_07
Reporter: Adam Lally
Priority: Minor
Attachments: maven-javadoc-bug.zip
The attached zip has a multimodule project with 2 modules. module 2 has an
invalid package.html file.
In the parent directory, run "mvn install". This should work fine.
Then run "mvn javadoc:javadoc". When I do this, I get:
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] An error has occurred in JavaDocs report generation.
Embedded error: Exit code: 1 -
C:/alally/dev/maven-javadoc-bug/module1/src/main/java/test/module1/Test.java:3:
package org.eclipse.emf.common.util does not exist
import org.eclipse.emf.common.util.EList;
^
C:/alally/dev/maven-javadoc-bug/module1/src/main/java/test/module1/Test.java:6:
cannot find symbol
symbol : class EList
location: class test.module1.Test
public static void foo(EList bar) {}
^
C:\alally\dev\maven-javadoc-bug\module2\src\main\java\test\module2\package.html:
error - Body tag missing from HTML
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In addition to the correct error message about the missing body tag, you can
see I'm also getting a bogus "cannot find symbol" error.
In my real project, I was getting *hundreds* of "cannot find symbol" errors,
making it very difficult to see what the real problem is. This caused me to
waste a few hours trying to figure out why my dependencies weren't being
resolved.
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