Eclipse gives the error "... is not a valid place for related resources."

Question

When I try to add a new Classpath variable in Eclipse for my build path configuration, and the path I add is a directory in which the current workspace is a subdirectory, Eclipse gives an error:

'C:\JavaStuff' is not a valid location for linked resources.

Why does Eclipse impose this restriction? I can’t think of a good reason for this ... I might want to put my JARs in C:\JavaStuff\libsand have my workspace in C:\JavaStuff\workspace, and then reference the libs (on my machine) through JAVASTUFF_DIR\libswhere JAVASTUFF_DIR C:\JavaStuff. This limitation prevents me from doing this.

Answer 1

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