Local configuration files - mxmlc compiler

Question

I'm baffled by the inability to override configuration
variables in a local config file (i.e. myApp-config.xml) that have
been defaulted in flex-config.xml. For example, I have a unit test
runner application where I want to set 'verbose-stacktraces' to
true, but since this is defaulted in flex-config.xml I get an error
that the variable 'verbose-stacktraces' must only be set once. The
livedocs lead you to believe that you can override any variable. Is
this as designed or a bug?

Answer 1

Ok, so I dug a little deeper and you're partially right. My
local config file looked like this when I got the error message:
<compiler>
<allow-source-path-overlap>true</allow-source-path-overlap>
<library-path append="true">
<path-element>lib/swc</path-element>
</library-path>
<source-path append="true">
<path-element>locale/{locale}</path-element>
</source-path>
<verbose-stacktraces>true</verbose-stacktraces>
</compiler>
I found that if I moved the <verbose-stacktraces> tag
to be the first child node under the compiler tag the compilation
worked just fine. I'm not sure why it's reacting to where tags are,
but I'm just happy that it works if ordered correctly. It would
help if the livedocs mentioned this as well.
FYI, I'm running the mxmlc command line compiler with Flex
2.0.1.