Thanks for sharing! We also need to update Wiki or some documents, don't we? http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToContribute
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Alejandro Abdelnur <t...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Following up on this. > > HADOOP-9845 & HADOOP-9872 have been committed > to trunk/branch-2/branch-2.1-beta/branch-2.1.0-beta. > > All Hadoop developers must install protoc 2.5.0 in their development > machines for the build to run. > > All Hadoop jenkins boxes are using protoc 2.5.0 > > The BUILDING.txt file has been updated to reflect that protoc 2.5.0 is the > required one and includes instructions on how to use a different protoc > from multiple local versions (using an ENV var). This may be handy for > folks working with Hadoop versions using protoc 2.4.1. > > INTERIM SOLUTION IF YOU CANNOT UPGRADE TO PROTOC 2.5.0 IMMEDIATELY > > Use the following option with all your Maven commands > '-Dprotobuf.version=2.4.1'. > > Note that this option will make the build use protoc and protobuf 2.4.1. > > Though you should upgrade to 2.5.0 at the earliest. > > As soon as we start using the new goodies from protobuf 2.5.0 (like the > non-copy bytearrays) 2.4.1 will not work anymore. > > Thanks and apologies again for the noise through out this change. > > -- > Alejandro -- - Tsuyoshi
