Seems to be a heap space issue for Maven. Have you configured Maven's memory according the instruction on the web page?
export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx2g -XX:MaxPermSize=512M -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=512m" On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Annabel Melongo < melongo_anna...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > I tried to build Spark according to the build directions > <http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/building-spark.html> and the it > failed due to the following error: > > > > > > > Building Spark - Spark 1.5.1 Documentation > <http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/building-spark.html> > Building Spark Building with build/mvn Building a Runnable Distribution > Setting up Maven’s Memory Usage Specifying the Hadoop Version Building With > Hive and JDBC Support Building for Scala 2.11 > View on spark.apache.org > <http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/building-spark.html> > Preview by Yahoo > > [ERROR] Failed to execute goal > org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin:2.5.5:single > (test-jar-with- > dependencies) on project spark-streaming-mqtt_2.10: Failed to > create assembly: Error creating assembly archive test- > jar-with-dependencies: Problem creating jar: Execution exception > (and the archive is probably corrupt but I could not > delete it): Java heap space -> [Help 1] > > Any help? I have a 64-bit windows 8 machine >