Old Gradle version causes Kafka 2.1.1 build failed

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'kafka-2.1.1-src'.
> Could not find method annotationProcessor() for arguments [org.openjdk.jmh:jmh-generator-annprocess:1.21] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.

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BUILD FAILED in 52s

error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.gxsHho (%build)
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.gxsHho (%build)

RPM build errors:

> Task :kafka-rpm FAILED
:kafka-rpm (Thread[Task worker for ':' Thread 2,5,main]) completed. Took 55.286 secs.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Script '/bigtop/packages.gradle' line: 500

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':kafka-rpm'.
> Process 'command 'rpmbuild'' finished with non-zero exit value 1

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BUILD FAILED in 1m 58s