[MNG-4262] Make-like reactor mode fails to find projects selected by relative paths with leading dots

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.0-alpha-3
• Component/s: Command Line, Reactor and Workspace
• Assignee: Benjamin Bentmann
• Reporter: Benjamin Bentmann
• Created: 28/Jul/09 03:59
• Updated: 28/Jul/09 04:36
• Resolved: 28/Jul/09 04:27

Description

When the parent/aggregator POM resides in a sibling directory of its children, i.e. when one has something like

<modules>
  <module>../sub-a</module>
  <module>../sub-b</module>
</modules>

an invocation of the make-like reactor mode in the parent project's base dir with

mvn validate --projects .

or

mvn validate --projects ../sub-a

fails with an error like "Couldn't find specified project in module list: M:\mng-2576\parent\..\sub-a".

Workaround is to specify groupId:artifactId instead of the relative paths.

Issue Links

• relates to: MNG-4237 also-make-dependents builds parent projects incorrectly