1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/run b/run
index 4cffda4708..0a440627a1 100755
--- a/run
+++ b/run
@@ -72,7 +72,10 @@ esac
 # hard to kill the child with stuff like Process.destroy(). However, for
 # the Spark shell, the wrapper is necessary to properly reset the terminal
 # when we exit, so we allow it to set a variable to launch with scala.
-if [ "$SPARK_LAUNCH_WITH_SCALA" == "1" ]; then
+# We still fall back on java for the shell if this is a "release" created
+# from make-distribution.sh since it's possible scala is not installed
+# but we have everything we need to run the shell.
+if [[ "$SPARK_LAUNCH_WITH_SCALA" == "1" && ! -f "$FWDIR/RELEASE" ]]; then
   if [ "$SCALA_HOME" ]; then
     RUNNER="${SCALA_HOME}/bin/scala"
   else