No need to specify. Any plugins bound to generate-sources will run before the compile phase. Are you using custom plugins? Multiple modules?
Maybe show us your pom? On Oct 31, 2013, at 11:23 AM, Andrew Pennebaker <apenneba...@42six.com> wrote: >> It sounds as though you might have intermittent tests. > > > Good guess, but no. In my case, I had refactored the arity of some > constructors, without updating all the code calling the constructors. On my > machine, `mvn test` showed everything passing. Wasn't until a coworker ran > `mvn test` on her computer that we saw a test failure. > > Also, on her computer, `mvn install` failed due to missing generated > sources. Would be nice if I could specify in the pom that the > `generate-sources` task is required before `mvn compile`. > > I'd like Maven tasks to work more like Make tasks, so that everything > downstream gets updated based on upstream file changes. > > -- > Cheers, > > Andrew Pennebaker > apenneba...@42six.com ----------------- Author, Getting Started with Apache Maven <http://www.packtpub.com/getting-started-with-apache-maven/video> Come read my webnovel, Take a Lemon <http://www.takealemon.com>, and listen to the Misfile radio play <http://www.fuzzyfacetheater.com/misfile/>!