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Maybe Gradle should stop telling anyone, with any kind of build failure, to ask for help here?

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':some-project:compileJava'.
> Compilation failed; see the compiler error output for details.

* 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>

true. this came up in another thread. it's often super misleading as its your code not compiling is not really a gradle issue

Yes - it seems Gradle could do with a way to distinguish between “failure to build” and “failure of buildsystem”.