Hi Tobias, Some more details about your project would probably help.
Do your missing symbols happen to be related to types created by source code generation? I had run into a similar problem with one of my builds a couple months ago, so let me share what I found. I had a multi-module project which used the XMLBeans Maven Plugin to generate some code from XML Schema files. I had the plugin defined in the module POM and had it configured to use JDK 1.5, which means amongst other things, that it creates get*List() methods in addition to get*Array() methods. The reactor project built fine, and I was able to successfully run site:site. After successfully running release:prepare, I tried release:perform, and all of a sudden the build failed with an error like: cannot find symbol symbol : method getPropertyList() location: interface I investigated this and found that the problem was that the XMLBeans Maven Plugin was being run multiple times during a reactor build, and during the site generation process it was being re-run but without the proper plugin configuration (specifically javaSource = 1.5 was not set). As a result, the get*List() versions of the methods were not being generated and the build failed. I tried several things to resolve this issue. I found that the only solution for me was to move the plugin configuration into the <pluginManagement> section of the root POM to insure that the configuration was always available, since for some unknown reason it was sometimes being omitted during a reactor build. This approach "resolved" the issue for me. I am not sure if this will help you at all, but I thought I would share in case you do have a similar configuration, or at least it may give you some ideas. I *think* this may be related to http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MJAVADOC-179, but I am not sure. Good luck! ~Brad -----Original Message----- From: Tobias Gierke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Maven Users List <[email protected]> To: Maven Users List <[email protected]> Subject: javadoc plugin fails during mvn release:perform ? Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:13:45 +0200 Hi, How come the javadoc plugin fails with a 'cannot find symbol XYZ' error when running 'mvn release:perform' but 'mvn site' works fine ? Since compilation works I would assume my pom.xml contains all required dependencies. Maven version: 2.0.9 (i386 Linux) JDK version: 1.5 (tested with 1.6 as well, both fail) maven-release-plugin: 2.0-beta-7 javadoc-plugin: 2.4 My project uses a rather large parent POM , unfortunately I had no time to try to reproduce this issue with a simpler POM yet. (Plugin) version numbers are inherited from a parent POM, along with dependency version numbers (although these are not completely managed using <dependencyManagement/> , we're currently in a kind of 'transition phase' and use a mix of version properties and <dependencyManagement> in our parent POM). Regards, Tobias --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
