https://ops.docs.72602.space/using/building/maven/index.html 1. build from submodule You don’t need to build from the head of project. ./mvnw clean package -DskipTests -rf :<$submodule-name> you can find the <$submodule-name> from submodule ’s pom.xml <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <parent> <groupId>org.apache.flink</groupId> <artifactId>flink-formats</artifactId> <version>1.20-SNAPSHOT</version> </parent> <artifactId>flink-avro</artifactId> <name>Flink : Formats : Avro</name> Then you can modify the command as ./mvnw clean package -DskipTests -rf :flink-avro The result will look like this [WARNING] For this reason, future Maven versions might no longer support building such malformed projects. [WARNING] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Detecting the operating system and CPU architecture [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] os.detected.name: linux [INFO] os.detected.arch: x86_64 [INFO] os.detected.bitness: 64 [INFO] os.detected.version: 6.7 [INFO] os.detected.version.major: 6 [INFO] os.detected.version.minor: 7 [INFO] os.detected.release: fedora [INFO] os.detected.release.version: 38 [INFO] os.detected.release.like.fedora: true [INFO] os.detected.classifier: linux-x86_64 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Reactor Build Order: [INFO] [INFO] Flink : Formats : Avro [jar] [INFO] Flink : Formats : SQL Avro [jar] [INFO] Flink : Formats : Parquet [jar] [INFO] Flink : Formats : SQL Parquet [jar] [INFO] Flink : Formats : Orc [jar] [INFO] Flink : Formats : SQL Orc [jar] [INFO] Flink : Python [jar] ... Normally, build Flink will start from module flink-parent Hugo en