Matthew Lavin created MCOMPILER-174: ---------------------------------------
Summary: Maven compiler plugin <excludes> doesn't work all the time Key: MCOMPILER-174 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MCOMPILER-174 Project: Maven 2.x Compiler Plugin Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 2.5, 2.4 Environment: N/A Reporter: Matthew Lavin When you set a source file as <configuration> <excludes> <exclude>com/you/example.java</exclude> </excludes> </configuration> it doesn't pass the file in with the list of .java files to javac. However, it still passes in the ./src/ directory under the -sourcepath option to the javac command. Thus, javac still knows that the file exists and can try to compile it anyways under certain circumstances. The passing of ./src/ under -sourcepath is redundant anyways, as every single file to be compiled is passed (in my case, all 391 source files) to javac. The only possible result from passing ./src/ (or at least the only one I can think of) is that a file which is in your ./src/ directory yet excluded by the maven-compiler-plugin can still be seen (and compiled) by javac. This can cause inexplicable results and a lot of confusion since it operates in a counter-intuitive way. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira