diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.MAPREDUCE-2841.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.MAPREDUCE-2841.txt
index 462ac8bc2d1..c3c6ab9fbac 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.MAPREDUCE-2841.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.MAPREDUCE-2841.txt
@@ -11,4 +11,5 @@ MAPREDUCE-5995. native-task: Revert changes to Text internals (todd)
 MAPREDUCE-6005. native-task: Fix some valgrind errors (Binglin Chang)
 MAPREDUCE-5984. native-task: Reuse lz4 sources in hadoop-common (Binglin Chang)
 MAPREDUCE-5976. native-task: should not fail to build if snappy is missing (Manu Zhang)
-MAPREDUCE-5978. native-task: remove test case for not supported codec Bzip2Codec and DefaultCodec (Manu Zhang)
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+MAPREDUCE-5978. native-task: remove test case for not supported codec Bzip2Codec and DefaultCodec (Manu Zhang)
+MAPREDUCE-6006. native-task: add native tests to maven and fix bug in pom.xml (Binglin Chang via todd)
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-common/pom.xml
index 48db5c87cb4..7ef7d3b038d 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-common/pom.xml
@@ -84,17 +84,6 @@
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>test-jar</goal>
-            </goals>
-            <phase>test-compile</phase>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/pom.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/pom.xml
index 9727800b4eb..bb7d7bbcb1b 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/pom.xml
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
       <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-common</artifactId>
-      <type>test-jar</type>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
@@ -173,7 +172,6 @@
                       overwrite="true">
                       <fileset dir="${basedir}/src/main/native/testData" />
                     </copy>
-                    <copy file="${basedir}/src/main/native/test.sh" todir="${project.build.directory}/native/test" />
                     <exec executable="cmake" dir="${project.build.directory}/native"
                       failonerror="true">
                       <arg line="${basedir}/src/ -DGENERATED_JAVAH=${project.build.directory}/native/javah -DJVM_ARCH_DATA_MODEL=${sun.arch.data.model} -DREQUIRE_SNAPPY=${require.snappy} -DCUSTOM_SNAPPY_PREFIX=${snappy.prefix} -DCUSTOM_SNAPPY_LIB=${snappy.lib} -DCUSTOM_SNAPPY_INCLUDE=${snappy.include}" />
@@ -187,6 +185,20 @@
                   </target>
                 </configuration>
               </execution>
+              <execution>
+                <id>native_tests</id>
+                <phase>test</phase>
+                <goals><goal>run</goal></goals>
+                <configuration>
+                  <target>
+                    <exec executable="sh" failonerror="true" dir="${project.build.directory}/native/test">
+                      <arg value="-c"/>
+                      <arg value="[ x$SKIPTESTS = xtrue ] || sh test.sh"/>
+                      <env key="SKIPTESTS" value="${skipTests}"/>
+                    </exec>
+                  </target>
+                </configuration>
+              </execution>
             </executions>
           </plugin>
           <plugin>
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/src/CMakeLists.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/src/CMakeLists.txt
index f38021dc3c8..77b6109a70b 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -167,10 +167,14 @@ SET(CMAKE_BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH TRUE)
 if (${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "Darwin")
     # macosx does not have -lrt
     set(NT_DEPEND_LIBRARY dl pthread z ${SNAPPY_LIBRARY} ${JAVA_JVM_LIBRARY})
+    set(SYSTEM_MAC TRUE)
 else (${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "Darwin")
     set(NT_DEPEND_LIBRARY dl rt pthread z ${SNAPPY_LIBRARY} ${JAVA_JVM_LIBRARY})
+    set(SYSTEM_MAC FALSE)
 endif (${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "Darwin")
 
+configure_file(main/native/test.sh test/test.sh)
+
 add_dual_library(nativetask
     ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/lz4.c
     ${D}/cityhash/city.cc
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/src/main/native/test.sh b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/src/main/native/test.sh
index 7310c9d4097..01506e6e8f5 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/src/main/native/test.sh
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/src/main/native/test.sh
@@ -1,18 +1,25 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# only do normal tests by default
+FILTER="--gtest_filter=-Perf.*"
 
 # do all tests
-if [ "$1" == "all" ]; then
-shift
-./nttest $@
-exit $?
+if [ "$1" = "all" ]; then
+  shift
+  FILTER=""
 fi
 
 # do performance tests only
-if [ "$1" == "perf" ]; then
-shift
-./nttest --gtest_filter=Perf.* $@
-exit $?
+if [ "$1" = "perf" ]; then
+  shift
+  FILTER="--gtest_filter=Perf.*"
+fi
+
+if [ "${SYSTEM_MAC}" = "TRUE" ]; then
+  # MACOSX already setup RPATH, no extra help required
+  ./nttest $FILTER $@
+else
+  JAVA_JVM_LIBRARY_DIR=`dirname ${JAVA_JVM_LIBRARY}`
+  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$JAVA_JVM_LIBRARY_DIR:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH ./nttest $FILTER $@
 fi
 
-# do not do performance test by default
-./nttest --gtest_filter=-Perf.* $@
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index 947be867b5d..2dc83dd4f92 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -134,12 +134,6 @@
         <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-common</artifactId>
         <version>${project.version}</version>
       </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-        <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-        <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-common</artifactId>
-        <version>${project.version}</version>
-        <type>test-jar</type>
-      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
         <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-api</artifactId>