did anyone encountered this?

[Stephen F Northover]

Let's consider flipping the switch so people don't see the problem or 
*possibly* switching to gradle 1.8.  This is something I see all the 
time and I'm betting others do too.

I have filed https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-34171 to track the 
issue.

Steve

On 2013-11-08 8:03 AM, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
> As a follow-up to this, yes it has been fixed in gradle 1.8:
>
> http://issues.gradle.org/browse/GRADLE-2831
>
> We won't be switching our builds to gradle 1.8 for FX 8, but if 
> developers want to give it a try on their own systems, that would be 
> fine.
>
> -- Kevin
>
> Kevin Rushforth wrote:
>> I see this from time to time. This is a bug in the version of ant 
>> that is used by gradle for dependencies. It has been reported that 
>> gradle 1.8 may have a newer version of ant that fixes this bug.
>>
>> In the mean time, a less intrusive workaround is:
>>
>>    gradle -PUSE_DEPEND=false ...
>>
>> If enough people are getting bitten by this, should we consider 
>> making USE_DEPEND=false the default?
>>
>> -- Kevin
>>
>>
>> Artem Ananiev wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, I've seen this many times. I didn't spend much time trying to 
>>> understand what is the problem, though. The workaround is simple: 
>>> just delete 3DViewer "build" folder.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Artem
>>>
>>> On 11/6/2013 5:35 PM, Assaf Yavnai wrote:
>>>> :apps:experiments:3DViewer:compileJava FAILED
>>>>
>>>> FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
>>>>
>>>> * What went wrong:
>>>> Execution failed for task ':apps:experiments:3DViewer:compileJava'.
>>>>  > java.lang.ClassFormatError: Invalid Constant Pool entry Type 18
>>>>
>>>> * Try:
>>>> Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with 
>>>> --info or
>>>> --debug option to get more log output.
>>>>
>>>> BUILD FAILED
>>>>
>>>> Total time: 39.292 secs
>>>> assaf at assaf-Latitude-E6410:~/ws/udev-refactoring/rt$ java -versionjava
>>>> version "1.8.0-ea"
>>>> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-ea-b113)
>>>> Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 25.0-b55, mixed mode)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Assaf