Lot of people having issue while building elephant bird twitter package. I hope this would help.

1. Elephant-Bird Build Error
(thrift, protoc) on Mac OS X
https://github.com/kevinweil/elephant-bird.git

2. Errors
• Failed to execute goal com.github.igorpetruk.protobuf:protobuf-maven-
plugin:0.4:run (default) on project elephantbird-core: Unable to find 'protoc’
• package org.apache.thrift.scheme does not
exist

3. Required Versions
• Protoc 2.4.1
• Thrift 0.7.0

4. Brew
• Latest brew formula support updated versions of
pr0toc and thrift.
• How to change brew formula to older versions?
• cmd
– brew versions protoc
– brew versions thrift

5. Brew contd…
• Change your directory to /usr/local
• protoc
– git checkout 544209f /usr/local/Library/Formula/protobuf.rb
• Thrift
– git checkout 141ddb6 /usr/local/Library/Formula/thrift.rb
• brew install protoc
• brew install thrift

6. Contd….
• Setting up path
– PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/protobuf/2.4.1/bin:$PATH
– PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/thrift/0.7.0/bin:$PATH
• Finally,
– mvn package

7. References
• https://github.com/kevinweil/elephantbird/wiki/Build-errors
• https://coderwall.com/p/lqphzg
• Switching between formulas
– http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3987683/hom
ebrew-install-specific-version-of-formula

8. Thank You !!!