$ gradle build

:compileJava UP-TO-DATE
:compileScala FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
A problem was found with the configuration of task ':compileScala'.
> No value has been specified for property 'zincClasspath'.

version = 0.1

apply plugin: 'scala'

repositories {
  mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
  compile 'org.scala-lang:scala-library:2.11.8'
}

$ gradle -version

------------------------------------------------------------
Gradle 3.2.1
------------------------------------------------------------

Build time:   2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC
Revision:     none

Groovy:       2.4.8
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.9 compiled on March 1 2017
JVM:          1.8.0_121 (Oracle Corporation 25.121-b13)
OS:           Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 amd64

$ uname -a

Linux front 4.8.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.8.5-1 (2016-10-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux