HADOOP-12274. Remove direct download link from BULIDING.txt. Contributed by Caleb Severn.

(cherry picked from commit 52f3525586)

BUILDING.txt

@@ -10,15 +10,15 @@ Requirements:
 * ProtocolBuffer 2.5.0
 * CMake 2.6 or newer (if compiling native code), must be 3.0 or newer on Mac
 * Zlib devel (if compiling native code)
-* openssl devel ( if compiling native hadoop-pipes and to get the best HDFS encryption performance )
-* Jansson C XML parsing library ( if compiling libwebhdfs )
-* Linux FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) version 2.6 or above ( if compiling fuse_dfs )
+* openssl devel (if compiling native hadoop-pipes and to get the best HDFS encryption performance)
+* Jansson C XML parsing library (if compiling libwebhdfs)
+* Linux FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) version 2.6 or above (if compiling fuse_dfs)
 * Internet connection for first build (to fetch all Maven and Hadoop dependencies)
 
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 The easiest way to get an environment with all the appropriate tools is by means
 of the provided Docker config.
-This requires a recent version of docker ( 1.4.1 and higher are known to work ).
+This requires a recent version of docker (1.4.1 and higher are known to work).
 
 On Linux:
     Install Docker and run this command:
@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ Known issues:
   This issue has been resolved as a duplicate, and they point to a new feature for utilizing NFS mounts
   as the proposed solution:
     https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/issues/64
-  An alternative solution to this problem is when you install Linux native inside a virtual machine
-  and run your IDE and Docker etc in side that VM.
+  An alternative solution to this problem is to install Linux native inside a virtual machine
+  and run your IDE and Docker etc inside that VM.
 
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Installing required packages for clean install of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Desktop:
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ Handling out of memory errors in builds
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 If the build process fails with an out of memory error, you should be able to fix
-it by increasing the memory used by maven -which can be done via the environment
+it by increasing the memory used by maven which can be done via the environment
 variable MAVEN_OPTS.
 
 Here is an example setting to allocate between 256 and 512 MB of heap space to
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ Requirements:
 * Python ( for generation of docs using 'mvn site')
 
 Unix command-line tools are also included with the Windows Git package which
-can be downloaded from http://git-scm.com/download/win.
+can be downloaded from http://git-scm.com/downloads
 
 If using Visual Studio, it must be Visual Studio 2010 Professional (not 2012).
 Do not use Visual Studio Express.  It does not support compiling for 64-bit,
@@ -304,10 +304,10 @@ Cygwin is neither required nor supported.
 Building:
 
 Keep the source code tree in a short path to avoid running into problems related
-to Windows maximum path length limitation.  (For example, C:\hdc).
+to Windows maximum path length limitation (for example, C:\hdc).
 
 Run builds from a Windows SDK Command Prompt. (Start, All Programs,
-Microsoft Windows SDK v7.1, Windows SDK 7.1 Command Prompt.)
+Microsoft Windows SDK v7.1, Windows SDK 7.1 Command Prompt).
 
 JAVA_HOME must be set, and the path must not contain spaces. If the full path
 would contain spaces, then use the Windows short path instead.

hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt

@@ -546,6 +546,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-12268. AbstractContractAppendTest#testRenameFileBeingAppended
     misses rename operation. (Zhihai Xu)
 
+    HADOOP-12274. Remove direct download link from BULIDING.txt.
+    (Caleb Severn via aajisaka)
+
 Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES