title: setting maven proxy settings outside of settings.xml
body: <p>I have a make file that calls ant and maven build files. I've had some trouble setting the proxy settings for maven. because there was no settings.xml file that I could find for this make file. So I created on in the {user.hom}/.m2/ directory where it usually looks for one. This did solve the problem, however when I ran sudo make it did not find this file and started having "connection refused" when it tried to download from remote repositories. </p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to set the Maven proxy settings from within the make file so that I do not have to manually create the settings.xml. Maybe within the pom file or some other way. </p>
  
  <p>It seems like it isn't fully installed but relying on external references for anything that it needs. I have never installed maven or ant and I cannot find the m2_home directory. This make file should be able to run on systems that do not have maven.</p>