Re: Compilation failed when compile hadoop common release-0.20.2

[Allen Wittenauer]

On 3/8/10 10:06 AM, "Gary Yang" <garyya...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Owen,
> 
> Thanks for the reply. From the link you provided, I found the build
> instruction. I do not understand the option, "-Djava5.home=/usr/local/jdk1.5".
> Does it mean I have to use JDK 1.5? I read somewhere it suggested to use JDK
> 1.6. 

JDK 1.5 is required to build the documentation.  JDK1.6 is used everywhere
else. So it uses the java5.home setting to kick off forrest without
upsetting the JAVA_HOME env var.