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| author | Sean Owen <sowen@cloudera.com> | 2015-03-03 13:40:11 -0800 |
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| committer | Andrew Or <andrew@databricks.com> | 2015-03-03 13:40:11 -0800 |
| commit | e750a6bfddf1d7bf7d3e99a424ec2b83a18b40d9 (patch) | |
| tree | 3644b024d5185bb15b85353b387c35a5747d25ca /docs/building-spark.md | |
| parent | 9af001749a37a86ccbf78063ec514a21801645fa (diff) | |
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SPARK-1911 [DOCS] Warn users if their assembly jars are not built with Java 6
Add warning about building with Java 7+ and running the JAR on early Java 6.
CC andrewor14
Author: Sean Owen <sowen@cloudera.com>
Closes #4874 from srowen/SPARK-1911 and squashes the following commits:
79fa2f6 [Sean Owen] Add warning about building with Java 7+ and running the JAR on early Java 6.
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diff --git a/docs/building-spark.md b/docs/building-spark.md index 4c3988e819..57d0ca834f 100644 --- a/docs/building-spark.md +++ b/docs/building-spark.md @@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ redirect_from: "building-with-maven.html" Building Spark using Maven requires Maven 3.0.4 or newer and Java 6+. +**Note:** Building Spark with Java 7 or later can create JAR files that may not be +readable with early versions of Java 6, due to the large number of files in the JAR +archive. Build with Java 6 if this is an issue for your deployment. + # Building with `build/mvn` Spark now comes packaged with a self-contained Maven installation to ease building and deployment of Spark from source located under the `build/` directory. This script will automatically download and setup all necessary build requirements ([Maven](https://maven.apache.org/), [Scala](http://www.scala-lang.org/), and [Zinc](https://github.com/typesafehub/zinc)) locally within the `build/` directory itself. It honors any `mvn` binary if present already, however, will pull down its own copy of Scala and Zinc regardless to ensure proper version requirements are met. `build/mvn` execution acts as a pass through to the `mvn` call allowing easy transition from previous build methods. As an example, one can build a version of Spark as follows: |