Josh: You may have noticed the following error ( https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/jenkins/job/spark-master-test-maven-hadoop-2.7/566/console ):
[error] javac: invalid source release: 1.8 [error] Usage: javac <options> <source files> [error] use -help for a list of possible options On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Josh Rosen <joshro...@databricks.com> wrote: > In order to be able to run Java 8 API compatibility tests, I'm going to > push a new set of Jenkins configurations for Spark's test and PR builders > so that those jobs use a Java 8 JDK. I tried this once in the past and it > seemed to introduce some rare, transient flakiness in certain tests, so if > anyone observes new test failures please email me and I'll investigate > right away. > > Note that this change has no impact on Spark's supported JDK versions and > our build will still target Java 7 and emit Java 7 bytecode; the purpose of > this change is simply to allow the Java 8 lambda tests to be run as part of > PR builder runs. > > - Josh >
