Greetings,

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Hugi Thordarson <[email protected]> wrote:
> You inspired me to do quick search for "outputDirectory" in all the POMs and 
> I found this little bugger in all the projects' common parent pom:
>
> <reporting>
>        <outputDirectory />
> </reporting>
>
> Not sure what purpose it served - but once removed, the projects behave as 
> expected in Maven 3 :).

Glad you figured it out. Having an empty outputDirectory must make it
default to the modules working directory. Then your clean would
convert the build into a digital Ouroboros of disaster.

Maybe Maven 3, in its aim to better inform users about code smells,
should warn users of this perilous condition.

-Jesse


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