If you're building hadoop-2.0.5 with JDK 7 and experience issues such as:
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[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR :
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[ERROR] /home/liuexp/Downloads/hadoop-2.0.5-alpha-src/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/target/generated-sources/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/protocol/proto/InterDatanodeProtocolProtos.java:[122,37] error: cannot find symbol
[ERROR] symbol: class Parser
location: package com.google.protobuf
/home/liuexp/Downloads/hadoop-2.0.5-alpha-src/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/target/generated-sources/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/protocol/proto/InterDatanodeProtocolProtos.java:[133,30] error: cannot find symbol
[ERROR] symbol: class Parser