Re: Help needed - checkstyle build failing

On 25/02/2025 16:01, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> On 2025-02-25, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> 
>> One option may be to build checkstyle before providing "guava" with
>> separateLocalRepository set to true. This is assuming you want to build
>> any other project that depend on guava and see whether it breaks and you
>> don't care if guava updates not currently dependend on break checkstyle.
> 
> It looks as if checkstyle was the only project that depends on guava so
> it looks as if you really wanted to verify checkstyle isn't broken by
> guava updates.
> 
> If you want to see whether a guava update would break checkstyle at
> runtime (when building Tomcat) then the approach above may work.
> 
> If all you want is to have the guava dependencies on the classpath when
> Tomcat is built you could change the project name and the mvn repositoy
> proxy would not provide the packaged version to checkstyle.
> 
> Right now I'm not sure why the packaged giava is there.

Thanks for the pointers. I'll take another look with this additional 
information and see if I can get things working.

Cheers,

Mark