Github user pwendell commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/17#discussion_r10192610
--- Diff: docs/building-with-maven.md ---
@@ -76,3 +78,11 @@ The maven build includes support for building a Debian
package containing the as
$ mvn -Pdeb -DskipTests clean package
The debian package can then be found under assembly/target. We added the
short commit hash to the file name so that we can distinguish individual
packages built for SNAPSHOT versions.
+
+## Running java 8 test suites.
+
+Running only java 8 tests and nothing else.
+
+ $ mvn test -DskipTests -Pjava8-tests
+
+Java 8 tests are run when -Pjava8-tests profile is enabled, they will run
inspite of -DskipTests. For these tests to run java 8 should be installed on
the system running the tests.
--- End diff --
Actually I think it's more specifically the following:
"For these tests to run your system must have a JDK 8 installation. If you
have JDK 8 installed but it is not the system default, you can set JAVA_HOME to
point to JDK 8 before running the tests."
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