I can reproduce this. Tried what was suggested here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15886209/maven-is-not-working-in-java-8-when-javadoc-tags-are-incomplete
Though it doesn't seem to work. On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Chen He <airb...@gmail.com> wrote: > "mvn package -Pdist -Dtar -DskipTests" reports following error based on > latest trunk: > > [INFO] BUILD FAILURE > > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > [INFO] Total time: 11.010 s > > [INFO] Finished at: 2014-11-10T11:23:49-08:00 > > [INFO] Final Memory: 51M/555M > > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > [ERROR] Failed to execute goal > org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-javadoc-plugin:2.8.1:jar (module-javadocs) > on project hadoop-maven-plugins: MavenReportException: Error while creating > archive: > > [ERROR] Exit code: 1 - > > ./hadoop/hadoop/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/util/Exec.java:45: > error: unknown tag: String > > [ERROR] * @param command List<String> containing command and all arguments > > [ERROR] ^ > > [ERROR] > > ./develop/hadoop/hadoop/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/util/Exec.java:46: > error: unknown tag: String > > [ERROR] * @param output List<String> in/out parameter to receive command > output > > [ERROR] ^ > > [ERROR] > > ./hadoop/hadoop/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/util/FileSetUtils.java:50: > error: unknown tag: File > > [ERROR] * @return List<File> containing every element of the FileSet as a > File > > [ERROR] ^ > > [ERROR] > > [ERROR] Command line was: > /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_25.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/javadoc > -J-Dhttp.proxySet=true -J-Dhttp.proxyHost=www-proxy.us.oracle.com > -J-Dhttp.proxyPort=80 @options @packages > > [ERROR] > > [ERROR] Refer to the generated Javadoc files in > './hadoop/hadoop/hadoop-maven-plugins/target' dir. > > [ERROR] -> [Help 1] > > [ERROR] > > [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e > switch. > > [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. > > [ERROR] > > [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, > please read the following articles: > > [ERROR] [Help 1] > http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException > > [ERROR] > > [ERROR] After correcting the problems, you can resume the build with the > command > > [ERROR] mvn <goals> -rf :hadoop-maven-plugins >