Global AST transformation breaks compilation

I'm trying to build a project with a groovy 2.2.1. I have grails-core-1.2.0.jar in the project which contains a global AST transformation org.codehaus.groovy.grails.compiler.injection.GlobalPluginAwareEntityASTTransformation which seems to throw the following exception during compilation.

It would be nice to be able to skip particular transformations or transformations throwing exceptions.

Groovyc: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/groovy/grails/commons/spring/RuntimeSpringConfiguration
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2521)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetPublicMethods(Class.java:2641)
at java.lang.Class.getMethods(Class.java:1457)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.stdclasses.CachedSAMClass.getSAMMethod(CachedSAMClass.java:135)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ClassInfo.isSAM(ClassInfo.java:280)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ClassInfo.createCachedClass(ClassInfo.java:270)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ClassInfo.access$400(ClassInfo.java:36)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ClassInfo$LazyCachedClassRef.initValue(ClassInfo.java:441)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ClassInfo$LazyCachedClassRef.initValue(ClassInfo.java:432)
at org.codehaus.groovy.util.LazyReference.getLocked(LazyReference.java:46)
at org.codehaus.groovy.util.LazyReference.get(LazyReference.java:33)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ClassInfo.getCachedClass(ClassInfo.java:89)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ReflectionCache.getCachedClass(ReflectionCache.java:107)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ParameterTypes.getParametersTypes0(ParameterTypes.java:78)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ParameterTypes.getParameterTypes(ParameterTypes.java:64)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.findPropertyMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1994)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.applyStrayPropertyMethods(MetaClassImpl.java:2270)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.setupProperties(MetaClassImpl.java:2128)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.addProperties(MetaClassImpl.java:3075)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.initialize(MetaClassImpl.java:3046)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ClassInfo.getMetaClassUnderLock(ClassInfo.java:176)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ClassInfo.getMetaClass(ClassInfo.java:192)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.metaclass.MetaClassRegistryImpl.getMetaClass(MetaClassRegistryImpl.java:255)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper.getMetaClass(InvokerHelper.java:859)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.createCallStaticSite(CallSiteArray.java:72)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.createCallSite(CallSiteArray.java:159)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:45)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:108)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:112)
at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.plugins.GrailsPluginUtils.getPluginBuildSettings(GrailsPluginUtils.groovy:143)
at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.compiler.injection.GlobalPluginAwareEntityASTTransformation.visit(GlobalPluginAwareEntityASTTransformation.java:58)
at org.codehaus.groovy.transform.ASTTransformationVisitor$3.call(ASTTransformationVisitor.java:319)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.applyToSourceUnits(CompilationUnit.java:912)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.doPhaseOperation(CompilationUnit.java:574)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.processPhaseOperations(CompilationUnit.java:550)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.compile(CompilationUnit.java:527)
at org.jetbrains.groovy.compiler.rt.GroovyCompilerWrapper.compile(GroovyCompilerWrapper.java:54)
at org.jetbrains.groovy.compiler.rt.DependentGroovycRunner.runGroovyc(DependentGroovycRunner.java:80)
at org.jetbrains.groovy.compiler.rt.GroovycRunner.main(GroovycRunner.java:85)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.CommandLineWrapper.main(CommandLineWrapper.java:121)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.spring.RuntimeSpringConfiguration
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
... 45 more