[m2e-users] Maven plugin in workspace, "could not find goal"

[Curtiss Howard <curtiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a project containing a Maven plugin I wrote and another project that uses it during the build.  It works fine when running Maven, but I get the following error  (genericized) in Eclipse:

"Could not find goal '<goalName>' in plugin <groupId>:<artifactId>:<version> among available goals help"

I saw someone had a similar issue last year and posted to the mailing list about it: https://www.eclipse.org/lists/m2e-users/msg05688.html

The response is that m2e does not support this.  Fair enough, but then why is m2e aware of the (generated) help goal and not my other goal?  I'm just wondering if there's a way to kill this error, either through some Maven configuration (preferable) or Eclipse configuration (acceptable).

Thanks!