Github user markhamstra commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/2014#discussion_r17570971 --- Diff: docs/building-spark.md --- @@ -159,4 +160,21 @@ then ship it over to the cluster. We are investigating the exact cause for this. The assembly jar produced by `mvn package` will, by default, include all of Spark's dependencies, including Hadoop and some of its ecosystem projects. On YARN deployments, this causes multiple versions of these to appear on executor classpaths: the version packaged in the Spark assembly and the version on each node, included with yarn.application.classpath. The `hadoop-provided` profile builds the assembly without including Hadoop-ecosystem projects, like ZooKeeper and Hadoop itself. +# Building with SBT +Maven is the official recommendation for packaging Spark, and is the "build of reference". +But SBT is supported for day-to-day development since it can provide much faster iterative +compilation. More advanced developers may wish to use SBT. + +The SBT build is derived from the Maven POM files, and so the same Maven profiles and variables +can be set to control the SBT build. For example: + + sbt/sbt -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.3 compile + +# Speeding up Compilation with Zinc + +[Zinc](https://github.com/typesafehub/zinc) is a long-running server version of SBT's incremental +compiler. When run locally as a background process, it speeds up builds of Scala-based projects +like Spark. Developers who regularly recompile Spark will be most interested in Zinc. The project --- End diff -- Should probably be something like "...who regularly recompile Spark with Maven will be..."; else some may think that Zinc is something to be used with SBT -- especially given that this comment is placed immediately after "Building with SBT".
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