Ugh! My Eclipse is stuck in an endless loop:
M2e, even in eclipse mars, seems to like infinite building.
In my case, no such thing as repeated build commands, as listed bellow. The only thing that seems to work when the project tree is gigantic is:
Otherwise, you're stuck with the deprecated mvn eclipse:eclipse ...
and have to abandon the use of maven commands from within eclipse echosystem. M2e seems to have a really gigantic hard time cooperating with the beast.
I still use m2e, but must say it is 100 times more difficult to swallow m2e than maven integration in netbeans. On the otherhand, eclipse is much faster for very large code base. Pick your poison, you'll always get bitten.
rootPom
org.eclipse.m2e.core.maven2Builder
org.eclipse.m2e.core.maven2Nature