I'm getting an internal error when trying to run an init script with a compilation error.

The script is just:

class AListener extends ProjectEvaluationListener {
}

The command line output:

$ gradle -I gradle/init.gradle -s -C rebuild

FAILURE: Build aborted because of an internal error.

• What went wrong:
  Build aborted because of an unexpected internal error. Please file an issue at: www.gradle.org.

• Try:
  Run with -d option to get additional debug info.

• Exception is:
  java.lang.NullPointerException: null
  at org.codehaus.groovy.classgen.Verifier.collectSuperInterfaceMethods(Verifier.java:949)
  at org.codehaus.groovy.classgen.Verifier.addCovariantMethods(Verifier.java:906)
  at org.codehaus.groovy.classgen.Verifier.visitClass(Verifier.java:164)
  at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit$11.call(CompilationUnit.java:700)
  at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.applyToPrimaryClassNodes(CompilationUnit.java:931)
  at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.doPhaseOperation(CompilationUnit.java:509)
  at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.processPhaseOperations(CompilationUnit.java:487)
  at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.compile(CompilationUnit.java:464)
  at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader.doParseClass(GroovyClassLoader.java:297)
  at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader.parseClass(GroovyClassLoader.java:279)
  at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.DefaultScriptCompilationHandler.compileScript(DefaultScriptCompilationHandler.java:108)
  at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.DefaultScriptCompilationHandler.compileToDir(DefaultScriptCompilationHandler.java:57)
  at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.CachingScriptCompilationHandler.compileToDir(CachingScriptCompilationHandler.java:33)
  at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.DefaultScriptCompilerFactory$ScriptCompilerImpl.loadViaCache(DefaultScriptCompilerFactory.java:90)
  at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.DefaultScriptCompilerFactory$ScriptCompilerImpl.compile(DefaultScriptCompilerFactory.java:69)
  at org.gradle.configuration.DefaultScriptPluginFactory$ScriptPluginImpl.apply(DefaultScriptPluginFactory.java:121)
  at org.gradle.configuration.DefaultInitScriptProcessor.process(DefaultInitScriptProcessor.java:37)
  at org.gradle.initialization.InitScriptHandler.executeScripts(InitScriptHandler.java:40)
  at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuildStages(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:125)
  at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuild(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:107)
  at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.run(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:75)
  at org.gradle.launcher.Main.execute(Main.java:93)
  at org.gradle.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:42)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
  at org.gradle.launcher.GradleMain.main(GradleMain.java:49)

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 1.366 secs