I'm trying to build Manas Kashyap's 1.5.2 update, and got a different error. And gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties says gradle 5.2.1, so it looks like they might have added some new gradle tricks
Included projects: [root project 'com.ibm.wala', project ':com.ibm.wala-repository', project ':com.ibm.wala.cast', project ':com.ibm.wala.cast.java', project ':com.ibm.wala.cast.test', project ':com.ibm.wala.core', project ':com.ibm.wala.dalvik', project ':com.ibm.wala.scandroid', project ':com.ibm.wala.shrike', project ':com.ibm.wala.tests.ide_feature', project ':com.ibm.wala.tests_feature', project ':com.ibm.wala.util', project ':com.ibm.wala_feature', project ':com.ibm.wala.cast.test:smoke_main', project ':com.ibm.wala.cast.test:xlator_test', project ':com.ibm.wala.cast:cast'] Keep-alive timer started Adding Debian repository to project 'com.ibm.wala' Adding Debian repository to project 'com.ibm.wala-repository' Adding Debian repository to project 'com.ibm.wala.cast' Adding Debian repository to project 'com.ibm.wala.cast.java' Adding Debian repository to project 'com.ibm.wala.cast.test' Adding Debian repository to project 'com.ibm.wala.core' Adding Debian repository to project 'com.ibm.wala.dalvik' Adding Debian repository to project 'com.ibm.wala.scandroid' Adding Debian repository to project 'com.ibm.wala.shrike' Adding Debian repository to project 'com.ibm.wala.tests.ide_feature' Adding Debian repository to project 'com.ibm.wala.tests_feature' Adding Debian repository to project 'com.ibm.wala.util' Adding Debian repository to project 'com.ibm.wala_feature' Adding Debian repository to project 'smoke_main' Adding Debian repository to project 'xlator_test' Adding Debian repository to project 'cast' Evaluating root project 'com.ibm.wala' using build file '/build/wala-1.5.2/build.gradle'. Compiling build file '/build/wala-1.5.2/build.gradle' using SubsetScriptTransformer. Compiling build file '/build/wala-1.5.2/build.gradle' using BuildScriptTransformer. FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * Where: Build file '/build/wala-1.5.2/build.gradle' line: 35 * What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating root project 'com.ibm.wala'. > Could not find method named() for arguments [test] on task set of type org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.DefaultTaskContainer.