I've already asked in <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-11596> but haven't gotten a reply so far so I thought I'd bump it here.
The issue replaces the compile time dependency of the various HDFS projects to hdfs-client with a "provided" dependency. Unfortunately that means that HDFS cannot be run anymore from source as is documented in the Wiki (< https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToSetupYourDevelopmentEnvironment>) and as used to be possible before the patch. This is because the hdfs client classes (e.g. ClientProtocol is the first one that HDFS complains about during startup) are not in the classpath anymore. I wonder how all of you are running Hadoop these days from source? I've always followed the Wiki instructions but maybe they are out of date and there's a better way? Thanks, Lars
