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diff --git a/docs/building-with-maven.md b/docs/building-with-maven.md index ded1292688..a982c4dbac 100644 --- a/docs/building-with-maven.md +++ b/docs/building-with-maven.md @@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ If you don't run this, you may see errors like the following: You can fix this by setting the `MAVEN_OPTS` variable as discussed before. +*Note: For Java 1.8 and above this step is not required.* + ## Specifying the Hadoop version ## Because HDFS is not protocol-compatible across versions, if you want to read from HDFS, you'll need to build Spark against the specific HDFS version in your environment. You can do this through the "hadoop.version" property. If unset, Spark will build against Hadoop 1.0.4 by default. @@ -76,3 +78,13 @@ 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 install -DskipTests -Pjava8-tests + +Java 8 tests are run when -Pjava8-tests profile is enabled, they will run in spite of -DskipTests. +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. |