Hi Michael,
Yes - that is indeed an error regarding the version of protobuf that needs to
be used. Pretty much all of the Hadoop ecosystem components have standardized
on protobuf-2.5.0. Newer versions would likely have worked assuming protobuf
retained compatibility.
In any case, you do need
Installation doc should clarify which version of protobuf is required.
Tez installation doc at http://tez.apache.org/install.html says:
> This assumes that you have already installed ... Protocol Buffers (protoc
compiler) 2.5 or later
I initially installed protobuf 2.6.1 ... and mvn failed with:
