Please find a patch below that cures this issue for me.
I have not yet learned enough of the build system to know why it would
succeed for anyone else.
-- /v\atthew
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Index: maven.xml
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RCS file: /cvs/glassfish/bootstrap/maven.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.8 maven.xml
--- maven.xml 31 Aug 2005 20:10:19 -0000 1.8
+++ maven.xml 7 Sep 2005 16:43:15 -0000
@@ -45,7 +45,36 @@
<maven:reactor basedir="."
includes="**/project-src.xml"
banner="Downloading binaries for building from source project"
+ postProcessing='true'
ignoreFailures="false"/>
+ <!--
+ q,v,
http://maven.apache.org/reference/user-guide.html#Multi_Project_Builds_and_the_Reactor
+ -->
+ <j:set var='srcPom' value='${reactorProjects[0]}' />
+ <!-- we have to use the getVariable b/c Jelly thinks
+ ${commons-logging-api.jar} is commons subtract ... which is 0
+ q.v.
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MAVEN-1521
+ -->
+ <ant:copy overwrite='true'
+ file="${srcPom.getDependencyPath('commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils')}"
+ tofile="${context.getVariable('commons-beanutils.jar')}" />
+ <ant:copy overwrite='true'
+ file="${srcPom.getDependencyPath('commons-collections:commons-collections')}"
+ tofile="${context.getVariable('commons-collections.jar')}" />
+ <ant:copy overwrite='true'
+ file="${srcPom.getDependencyPath('commons-digester:commons-digester')}"
+ tofile="${context.getVariable('commons-digester.jar')}" />
+ <ant:copy overwrite='true'
+ file="${srcPom.getDependencyPath('commons-el:commons-el')}"
+ tofile="${context.getVariable('commons-el.jar')}" />
+ <!--
+ use commons-logging-api here because post-bootstrap goal moves
+ it to ${commons-logging.jar} (which is actually the root cause
+ for the 4 preceeding lines, too)
+ *-->
+ <ant:copy overwrite='true'
+ file="${srcPom.getDependencyPath('commons-logging:commons-logging')}"
+ tofile="${context.getVariable('commons-logging-api.jar')}" />
</goal>
<postGoal name="bootstrap-all">
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