diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d469e22..36fc9f2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,3 +20,8 @@ HTrace
HTrace is a tracing framework for use with distributed systems.
See documentation at src/main/site/markdown/index.md or at http://htrace.incubator.apache.org.
+
+Building
+--------
+To get around [HTRACE-234](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTRACE-234)(htrace-hbase build gets in infinite loop while creating the dependency reduced pom) seen with Maven 3.3.3, you can pass `-DcreateDependencyReducedPom=false` to the `mvn` command e.g. `mvn package -DcreateDependencyReducedPom=false`
+
diff --git a/htrace-hbase/pom.xml b/htrace-hbase/pom.xml
index 20075e9..f2d0351 100644
--- a/htrace-hbase/pom.xml
+++ b/htrace-hbase/pom.xml
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ language governing permissions and limitations under the License. -->
UTF-8
0.99.2
9.2.13.v20150730
+ true
@@ -67,6 +68,9 @@ language governing permissions and limitations under the License. -->
org.apache.maven.plugins
maven-shade-plugin
+
+ ${createDependencyReducedPom}
+
package