Bug 51908 - Illegal character in path at index 0

Is there a workaround/fix for the following build failure
message<https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51908>?


Caused by: java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in path at index
0: \

at java.net.URI$Parser.fail(URI.java:2829)

at java.net.URI$Parser.checkChars(URI.java:3002)

at java.net.URI$Parser.parseHierarchical(URI.java:3086)

at java.net.URI$Parser.parse(URI.java:3044)

at java.net.URI.<init>(URI.java:595)

at java.net.URI.create(URI.java:857)

... 19 more

BUILD FAILED (total time: 0 seconds)


It seems that this is a year-old bug, started in the 1.7 build jars.