I think the "unknown goal 'clean'" is fixed in the 1.0 branch. I'm not sure why the other problem occurs, as it has worked for me. Can you try separating the plugin home and the plugin unpacked dir as another poster has just suggested, and let us know the results?
Thanks, Brett > -----Original Message----- > From: O'Fallon, Paul (MAN-Corporate) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 17 December 2003 9:03 AM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Problem building maven-plugins > > > I'm trying to build maven-plugins and running into a problem. > If I follow the FAQ and run "maven > -Dgoal=clean,plugin:install multiproject:goal", everything > runs fine until it finishes the "clean" plugin. The next > plugin processed is the clover plugin, and it failes on the > error 'Unknown goal "clean"'. > > If I remove clean and simply run "maven -Dgoal=plugin:install > multiproject:goal", it works through the jar plugin. When it > gets to the java plugin, it fails with an error "Unable to > obtain goal [plugin] -- file:/C:/Documents and > Settings/pofallon/.maven/plugins/maven-plugin-plugin-1.2-SNAPSH > OT/:15:33: <attainGoal> Goal [jar:jar] has no action definition." > > Running "maven -Dgoal=clean multiproject:goal" works fine. > > It appears that the act of installing a plugin makes it > unavailable to the currently running maven process. This > causes the build to fail at the first attempt to use a newly > installed plugin. We've verified this on two different > machines here (both running JDK 1.4 -- one win2k, one XP). > I've seen this happen with maven RC2 and 1.1 SNAPSHOT (with > CVS checkouts as recently as earlier today). > > Any suggestions or tips are greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Paul > > -- > Paul O'Fallon > Software Development Manager > Manheim Auctions > www.manheim.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
