From 3539156dea01e72242ea506f4fb7a14e7777d027 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mahadev Konar <mahadev@apache.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:15:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] HADOOP-7843. compilation failing because workDir not
 initialized in RunJar.java (John George via mahadev)

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common/branches/branch-0.23@1204629 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt                | 3 +++
 .../src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/RunJar.java           | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 170ea3f8d16..277da1d0dad 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ Release 0.23.1 - Unreleased
    HADOOP-6614. RunJar should provide more diags when it can't create
    a temp file. (Jonathan Hsieh via eli)
 
+   HADOOP-7843. compilation failing because workDir not initialized in 
+   RunJar.java (John George via mahadev)
+
 Release 0.23.0 - 2011-11-01 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/RunJar.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/RunJar.java
index e6c6a14eeae..58510bfba3f 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/RunJar.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/RunJar.java
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ public class RunJar {
     File tmpDir = new File(new Configuration().get("hadoop.tmp.dir"));
     ensureDirectory(tmpDir);
 
-    File workDir;
+    final File workDir;
     try { 
       workDir = File.createTempFile("hadoop-unjar", "", tmpDir);
     } catch (IOException ioe) {
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ public class RunJar {
       System.err.println("Error creating temp dir in " + tmpDir + " due to " 
           + ioe.getMessage());
       System.exit(-1);
+      return;
     }
 
     if (!workDir.delete()) {