Re: Help needed - checkstyle build failing

On 25/02/2025 17:14, Mark Thomas wrote:
> 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.

That seems to have worked (although some other Gremlins are still 
causing issues). I removed the packaged Guava as I am interested in 
whether Tomcat passes the Checkstyle checks with the latest Checkstyle 
code but I don't need to build Checkstyle against the latest version of 
all its dependencies.

Cheers,

Mark