maven-assembly-plugin - stackoverflow

currently I'm developing several helper tools for the alchemy project and promtply run into the issue of a stackoverflow exception with maven. Basically I try to assemble several archive, including all the required jars and generate the corresponding MANIFEST.MF files for a couple of main classes. apparently with maven3, you have to set the following flag: export MAVEN_OPTS=-Xss2m to avoid having a stackoverflow exception. Annoying... solution found here