1.8 build test fails in com.ibm.icu.util.VersionInfo.getInstance()

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError: null
	at com.ibm.icu.util.VersionInfo.getInstance(VersionInfo.java:191)
	at com.ibm.icu.impl.ICUDebug.getInstanceLenient(ICUDebug.java:65)
	at com.ibm.icu.impl.ICUDebug.<clinit>(ICUDebug.java:69)
	at com.ibm.icu.impl.NormalizerDataReader.<clinit>(NormalizerDataReader.java:300)
	at com.ibm.icu.impl.NormalizerImpl.<init>(NormalizerImpl.java:288)
	at com.ibm.icu.impl.NormalizerImpl.<clinit>(NormalizerImpl.java:35)
	at com.ibm.icu.text.Normalizer.compose(Normalizer.java:873)
	at com.ibm.icu.text.Normalizer$NFKCMode.normalize(Normalizer.java:469)
	at com.ibm.icu.text.Normalizer.normalize(Normalizer.java:1111)
	at com.ibm.icu.text.Normalizer.normalize(Normalizer.java:1213)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.util.ICU4JImpl.normalizePres(ICU4JImpl.java:112)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.util.TextNormalize.normalizePres(TextNormalize.java:140)