Question about Jenkins build failures building hadoop-project

[Kumar Ravi <ku...@us.ibm.com>]

Hello,

 I have a question about the build failure messages from Jenkins the past
few days. I have a patch that was approved to be merged for branch-2

[mattf] HDFS-3265. PowerPc Build error. Contributed by Kumar Ravi.

Although I was successful in building hadoop-common and hadoop-hdfs with
the above patch on an x86_64 platform running Sun JDK 1.6, there was the
following failure message that I saw on this mailing list:

+ /home/jenkins/tools/maven/latest/bin/mvn test -Pclover
-DcloverLicenseLocation=/home/jenkins/tools/clover/latest/lib/clover.license

Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure

I have been unable to recreate this problem. I also notice there has been
at least 1 such build failure every day with exactly the same result.

I would appreciate any help in trying to understand this message so that I
can get my patch merged into branch-2.

Regards,
Kumar

Kumar Ravi
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