title: must specify an absolute path maven
body: <p>I have the following in my settings.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;profile&gt;
    &lt;id&gt;default&lt;/id&gt;
    &lt;activation&gt;
      &lt;activeByDefault&gt;true&gt;&lt;/activeByDefault&gt;
    &lt;/activation&gt;
    &lt;properties&gt;
      &lt;eclipse.location&gt;/Applications/eclipse&lt;/eclipse.location&gt;
    &lt;/properties&gt;
  &lt;/profile&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I keep getting an error on this line in pom.xml in my project:</p>
  
  <pre><code>        &lt;systemPath&gt;$(eclipse.location)/plugins/com.google.appengine.eclipse.sdkbundle_${appengine.target.version}/appengine-java-sdk-${appengine.target.version}/lib/impl/appengine-local-runtime.jar&lt;/systemPath&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Project build error: 'dependencies.dependency.systemPath' for com.google.appengine:appengine-local-runtime:jar must specify an absolute path but is $(eclipse.location)/plugins/com.google.appengine.eclipse.sdkbundle_1.9.6/appengine-java-sdk-1.9.6/lib/impl/appengine-local-runtime.jar</p>
  
  <p>From the output from mvn clean I can see that the settings.xml file is read.</p>
  
  <pre><code> [DEBUG] Reading global settings from /usr/local/apache-maven/apache-maven-3.2.1/conf/settings.xml
   [DEBUG] Reading user settings from /Users/xxx/.m2/settings.xml
   [DEBUG] Using local repository at /Users/xxx/.m2/repository
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I get the same error as above:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[ERROR]     'dependencies.dependency.systemPath' for com.google.appengine:appengine-local-runtime:jar must specify an absolute path but is $(eclipse.location)/plugins/com.google.appengine.eclipse.sdkbundle_1.9.6/appengine-java-sdk-1.9.6/lib/impl/appengine-local-runtime.jar @ line 274, column 16
  </code></pre>