[HADOOP-12952] /BUILDING example of zero-docs dist should skip javadocs

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.8.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.9.0, 3.0.0-alpha1
• Component/s: build, documentation
• Target Version/s: 2.9.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Steve Loughran
• Reporter: Steve Loughran
• Created: 22/Mar/16 14:51
• Updated: 30/Aug/16 01:17
• Resolved: 23/Mar/16 05:17

Description

The examples for building distributions include how to create one without any documentation. But it includes the javadoc stage in the build, which is very slow.

Adding -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true skips that phase, and helps round out the parameters to a build.