Could you try mvn -X compile? That should show the exact commands that are being executed which seem to be coming from hadoop-project-dist/pom.xml.
On Lion the following worked me: git clone git://git.apache.org/hadoop-common.git cd hadoop-common mvn compile I had a very similar error: [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-antrun-plugin:1.6:run (compile-proto) on project hadoop-common: An Ant BuildException has occured: exec returned: 127 -> [Help 1] which was caused by a missing dependency, in this case the protocol buffers compiler. In your case the goal was (tar) so -X should help. -Noah On Feb 10, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Ralph Castain wrote: > Hi folks > > I'm a newbie to the Hadoop code and am trying to build the svn trunk per > instructions on the wiki and the mailing list. I'm hitting a failure and > would appreciate any suggestions: > > main: > [exec] tar: Failed to open 'hadoop-project-dist-0.24.0-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz' > > > It looks like this file isn't getting created, but I don't know why. I used > the -e option for mvn, and saw this: > > [INFO] --- maven-antrun-plugin:1.6:run (pre-dist) @ hadoop-project-dist --- > [INFO] Executing tasks > > main: > [exec] ./dist-copynativelibs.sh: line 10: [: too many arguments > [INFO] Executed tasks > [INFO] > [INFO] --- maven-assembly-plugin:2.2.1:single (dist) @ hadoop-project-dist --- > [WARNING] The following patterns were never triggered in this artifact > exclusion filter: > o 'org.apache.ant:*:jar' > o 'jdiff:jdiff:jar' > > [INFO] Copying files to /Volumes/Macintosh HD > 2/rhc/hadoop/svn-trunk/hadoop-project-dist/target/hadoop-project-dist-0.24.0-SNAPSHOT > [INFO] > [INFO] --- maven-source-plugin:2.1.2:jar-no-fork (hadoop-java-sources) @ > hadoop-project-dist --- > [INFO] > [INFO] --- maven-enforcer-plugin:1.0:enforce (dist-enforce) @ > hadoop-project-dist --- > [INFO] > [INFO] --- maven-site-plugin:3.0:attach-descriptor (attach-descriptor) @ > hadoop-project-dist --- > [INFO] > [INFO] --- maven-javadoc-plugin:2.8.1:jar (module-javadocs) @ > hadoop-project-dist --- > [INFO] Not executing Javadoc as the project is not a Java classpath-capable > package > [INFO] > [INFO] --- maven-antrun-plugin:1.6:run (tar) @ hadoop-project-dist --- > [INFO] Executing tasks > > main: > [exec] tar: Failed to open 'hadoop-project-dist-0.24.0-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz' > > > The detailed error report: > > [ERROR] Failed to execute goal > org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-antrun-plugin:1.6:run (tar) on project > hadoop-project-dist: An Ant BuildException has occured: exec returned: 1 -> > [Help 1] > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute > goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-antrun-plugin:1.6:run (tar) on project > hadoop-project-dist: An Ant BuildException has occured: exec returned: 1 > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:217) > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153) > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145) > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:84) > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:59) > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.singleThreadedBuild(LifecycleStarter.java:183) > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:161) > at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:319) > at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:156) > at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:537) > at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:196) > at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:141) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) > at > org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:290) > at > org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:230) > at > org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:409) > at > org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:352) > Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: An Ant > BuildException has occured: exec returned: 1 > at > org.apache.maven.plugin.antrun.AntRunMojo.execute(AntRunMojo.java:283) > at > org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:101) > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:209) > ... 19 more > Caused by: /Volumes/Macintosh HD > 2/rhc/hadoop/svn-trunk/hadoop-project-dist/target/antrun/build-main.xml:12: > exec returned: 1 > at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ExecTask.runExecute(ExecTask.java:650) > at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ExecTask.runExec(ExecTask.java:676) > at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ExecTask.execute(ExecTask.java:502) > at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) > at > org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:390) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:411) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1397) > at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1366) > at > org.apache.maven.plugin.antrun.AntRunMojo.execute(AntRunMojo.java:270) > ... 21 more > [ > > Any ideas what may be going wrong? This is on Mac OSX/Lion, and the Maven cmd > line was: > > mvn clean package -Pdist -Dtar -DskipTests -P-native > > Thanks > Ralph >