Hmm, I don't know why your first example is working, because that is not a valid layout for the POM. See [1].
Could you give us the output of mvn -e -P <your-profile> <your-goal> With regards, Nick Stolwijk [1] http://maven.apache.org/ref/2.0.7/maven-model/maven.html -----Original Message----- From: supareno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 1/31/2008 2:34 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: problems with multiple profiles... hello, i read a lot about profiles ans i 'm stuck on a problem i'm using eclipse 3.2 my maven version is : Maven version: 2.0.8 my java version is: Java version: 1.6.0_03 so, in my pom.xml, i have a profile with build, plugins and depedencies like this: <project> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>groupid</groupId> <artifactId>artifactid</artifactId> [...] <profile> <build> [...] </build> <depedencies> [...] </depedencies> [...] </profile> </project> when i run this pom with the eclipse external tools launcher, everything works fine but i put mu profile between <profiles> tag like this <project> [...] <profiles> <profile> [...] </profile> </profiles> </project> to add another profile, i've got an error which is: INFO] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ERROR] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [INFO] Error scanning for extensions: Error building model lineage in order to pre-scan for extensions: Failed to parse model from: /home/<project>/pom.xml for project unknown at /home/<project>/pom.xml [INFO] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [INFO] Total time: 1 second [INFO] Finished at: Thu Jan 31 14:23:32 CET 2008 [INFO] Memory 2M/4M [INFO] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- what's wrong with my config?? regards supareno --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]