Having looked at trunk make-distribution.sh the --with-hive and --with-yarn are now deprecated.
Here is the way I have built it: Added to pom.xml: <profile> <id>cdh5</id> <activation> <activeByDefault>false</activeByDefault> </activation> <properties> <hadoop.version>2.3.0-cdh5.0.0</hadoop.version> <yarn.version>2.3.0-cdh5.0.0</yarn.version> <hbase.version>0.96.1.1-cdh5.0.0</hbase.version> <zookeeper.version>3.4.5-cdh5.0.0</zookeeper.version> </properties> </profile> *mvn -Pyarn -Pcdh5 -Phive -Dhadoop.version=2.3.0-cdh5.0.1 -Dyarn.version=2.3.0-cdh5.0.0 -DskipTests clean package* [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Reactor Summary: [INFO] [INFO] Spark Project Parent POM .......................... SUCCESS [3.165s] [INFO] Spark Project Core ................................ SUCCESS [2:39.504s] [INFO] Spark Project Bagel ............................... SUCCESS [7.596s] [INFO] Spark Project GraphX .............................. SUCCESS [22.027s] [INFO] Spark Project ML Library .......................... SUCCESS [36.284s] [INFO] Spark Project Streaming ........................... SUCCESS [24.309s] [INFO] Spark Project Tools ............................... SUCCESS [3.147s] [INFO] Spark Project Catalyst ............................ SUCCESS [20.148s] [INFO] Spark Project SQL ................................. SUCCESS [18.560s] *[INFO] Spark Project Hive ................................ FAILURE [33.962s]* [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.4:copy-dependencies (copy-dependencies) on project spark-hive_2.10: Execution copy-dependencies of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.4:copy-dependencies failed: Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.4 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Could not find artifact commons-logging:commons-logging:jar:1.0.4 -> [Help 1] Anyone who is presently building with -Phive and has a suggestion for this?