Classifiers and properties

[Benson Margulies <bi...@gmail.com>]

Pom for project A contains:

      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
          <classifier>${bt.arch}</classifier>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>

Pom for project B contains:

    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.basistech</groupId>
      <artifactId>utilities</artifactId>
      <version>7.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
      <classifier>${bt.arch}</classifier>
    </dependency>

Pom for project C contains:

    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.basistech</groupId>
      <artifactId>rlp</artifactId>
      <version>7.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </dependency>

Project C pom also contains setting for bt.arch.

Running mvn for project C (with only project C in reactor) fails, trying to
use the literal string ${bt.arch} to construct pathname. Running mvn
-Dbt.arch=whatever works.

Version is 2.0.9.

Is this normal/expected?