[jira] (MPLUGIN-202) Dependency on tools.jar should be expressed with profiles

["Herve Boutemy (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Herve Boutemy reopened MPLUGIN-202:
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      Assignee:     (was: Herve Boutemy)

reverted since it wreaks havoc

some Maven developers are working with a Mac without problems, seems the problem is more subtle: how is your machine installed?
                
> Dependency on tools.jar should be expressed with profiles
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MPLUGIN-202
>                 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPLUGIN-202
>             Project: Maven 2.x Plugin Tools
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: maven-plugin-tools-javadoc
>    Affects Versions: 2.9
>            Reporter: Chris Lott
>            Priority: Minor
>
> The POM for org.apache.maven.plugin-tools, org.apache.maven.plugin-tools, Version 2.9 asserts a dependency on the JDK's tools.jar like this:
> {code:xml}<dependency>
>   <groupId>com.sun</groupId>
>   <artifactId>tools</artifactId>
>   <version>1.4.2</version>
>   <scope>system</scope>
>   <systemPath>${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar</systemPath>
> </dependency>{code}
> This caused build path failures on my windows system that m2eclipse simply was not able to resolve, despite my use of the JDK, finally had to give up.  I also note that on a Mac it will never work.  Compare with the approach taken by artifact log4j, group log4j, version 1.2.16 for a tools.jar dependency:
> {code:xml}<dependency>
>   <groupId>sun.jdk</groupId>
>   <artifactId>tools</artifactId>
>   <version>1.4.2</version>
>   <scope>system</scope>
>   <systemPath>${tools.jar}</systemPath>
> </dependency>{code}
> This "tools.jar" variable is defined in terms of machine profiles.
> Thanks for listening.

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