You seem to be using protoc-2.5.0, which is known not to work with Hadoop yet: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9346
Downgrading to 2.4.1 should let you go ahead. On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote: > Hi folks > > I'm trying to build the head of branch-2 on a CentOS box and hitting a rash > of errors like the following (all from the protobuf support area): > > [ERROR] Failed to execute goal > org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.5.1:compile > (default-compile) on project hadoop-common: Compilation failure: Compilation > failure: > [ERROR] > /home/common/hadoop/hadoop-common/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/target/generated-sources/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/protobuf/RpcHeaderProtos.java:[278,37] > error: cannot find symbol > [ERROR] symbol: class Parser > [ERROR] location: package com.google.protobuf > > Per the BUILDING.txt instructions, I was using a command line of "mvn install > -DskipTests" from the top level directory. > > Any suggestions? I assume I must have some path incorrectly set or need to > build the sub-projects manually in some order, but I'm unsure of the nature > of the problem. > > Thanks > Ralph > -- Harsh J