Yes of course, the build isn't failing, it's the tests that require Hadoop.
It's entirely legit to proceed this way if you don't actually need Hadoop-related parts. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Jonathan Worthington <[email protected]> wrote: > Eleftherios Spyromitros wrote: >> >> Does no one else work with mahout on windows, or are Vista that cause the >> problem? >> > > I did get it to work, but I had to: > > mvn install -DskipTests > > Once built, it seems to actually work fine. Or at least, the bits I cared > about (which was the recommendation engine). Of course, this is a workaround > rather than a solution. ;-) It may be the issue is something to do with the > testing rather than anything more deeply wrong, though. > > Note I did this without cygwin (which I prefer to avoid...) and just at the > normal command shell. > > Hope this helps, > > Jonathan > >
