Gradle 4 build fails

[lhannest]

The build file must be malformed. Building from Eclipse works fine (probably because Eclipse has more knowledge about the project), but building with gradle 4 fails:

$ gradle4 --version

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Gradle 4.5
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Build time:   2018-01-24 17:04:52 UTC
Revision:     77d0ec90636f43669dc794ca17ef80dd65457bec

Groovy:       2.4.12
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.9 compiled on February 2 2017
JVM:          1.8.0_151 (Oracle Corporation 25.151-b12)
OS:           Linux 3.13.0-124-generic amd64

$ gradle4 build
Starting a Gradle Daemon (subsequent builds will be faster)

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':bootRepackage'.
> org.gradle.api.artifacts.ProjectDependency.getProjectConfiguration()Lorg/gradle/api/artifacts/Configuration;

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 3m 37s
21 actionable tasks: 5 executed, 16 up-to-date