[HADOOP-8916] make it possible to build hadoop tarballs without java5+ forrest

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.3, 1.3.0
• Component/s: build
• Target Version/s: 1.3.0
• Assignee: Steve Loughran
• Reporter: Steve Loughran
• Created: 11/Oct/12 12:20
• Updated: 27/Jan/15 10:04
• Resolved: 27/Jan/15 10:04

Description

Although you can build hadoop binaries without java5 & Forrest, you can't do the tarballs as tar depends on packaged, which depends on the docs and cn-docs, which both depend on the forrest/java5 checks.