[MNG-4426] Some javac errors not shown in console when error stacktraces are turned on

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0-alpha-3
• Fix Version/s: 3.0-alpha-3
• Component/s: Errors

Environment

Apache Maven 3.0-SNAPSHOT (r831593; 2009-10-31 16:50:46-0500)
Java version: 1.6.0_16
Java home: d:\jdk1.6.0_16\jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows xp" version: "5.1" arch: "x86" Family: "windows"

• Assignee: Benjamin Bentmann
• Reporter: Paul Benedict
• Created: 02/Nov/09 20:32
• Updated: 07/Apr/15 19:22
• Resolved: 04/Nov/09 06:52

Description

This only occurs when -e option is specified. When my build failure happened, this was the output:

[ERROR] [0]
org.apache.maven.plugin.CompilationFailureException: Compilation failure
at org.apache.maven.plugin.AbstractCompilerMojo.execute(AbstractCompilerMojo.java:516)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.CompilerMojo.execute(CompilerMojo.java:114)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:105)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:547)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:317)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:233)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:102)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:421)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:156)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:121)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:290)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:230)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:409)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:352)
[ERROR]
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions,
please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [0] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoFailureException

Is this a feature or a bug? I thought it was the latter. Without the option, the compiling errors are again printed.