Thrift does not compile due to Ant Maven task errors

Cannot compile neither 0.9.3 nor 0.10.0
They both fail with same errors in the Ant / Maven task....
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./configure --without-ruby --without-cpp --without-nodejs --without-python --without-go --without-c_glib

/usr/bin/ant
Buildfile: /home/jfurmank/Downloads/thrift-0.10.0/lib/java/build.xml

setup.init:

mvn.ant.tasks.check:

proxy:

mvn.ant.tasks.download:
[get] Getting: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/maven-ant-tasks/2.1.3/maven-ant-tasks-2.1.3.jar
[get] To: /home/jfurmank/Downloads/thrift-0.10.0/lib/java/build/tools/maven-ant-tasks-2.1.3.jar
[get] Not modified - so not downloaded

mvn.init:

BUILD FAILED
/home/jfurmank/Downloads/thrift-0.10.0/lib/java/build.xml:324: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.maven.settings.RuntimeInfo.<init>(Lorg/apache/maven/settings/Settings;)V
at org.apache.maven.artifact.ant.AbstractArtifactTask.loadSettings(AbstractArtifactTask.java:328)
at org.apache.maven.artifact.ant.AbstractArtifactTask.initSettings(AbstractArtifactTask.java:278)
at org.apache.maven.artifact.ant.AbstractArtifactTask.getSettings(AbstractArtifactTask.java:223)
at org.apache.maven.artifact.ant.AbstractArtifactTask.getDefaultLocalRepository(AbstractArtifactTask.java:212)
at org.apache.maven.artifact.ant.AbstractArtifactTask.getLocalRepository(AbstractArtifactTask.java:700)
at org.apache.maven.artifact.ant.AbstractArtifactTask.createLocalArtifactRepository(AbstractArtifactTask.java:110)
at org.apache.maven.artifact.ant.Pom.getMavenProject(Pom.java:272)
at org.apache.maven.artifact.ant.Pom.setGroupId(Pom.java:560)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.apache.tools.ant.IntrospectionHelper$AttributeSetter.setObject(IntrospectionHelper.java:1506)
at org.apache.tools.ant.IntrospectionHelper.setAttribute(IntrospectionHelper.java:411)
at org.apache.tools.ant.RuntimeConfigurable.maybeConfigure(RuntimeConfigurable.java:527)
at org.apache.tools.ant.RuntimeConfigurable.maybeConfigure(RuntimeConfigurable.java:463)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.maybeConfigure(Task.java:202)
at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.configure(UnknownElement.java:200)
at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.maybeConfigure(UnknownElement.java:164)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:347)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:435)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:456)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1405)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1376)
at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1260)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:853)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:235)
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:285)
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:112)

Total time: 0 seconds

Totally blocked, cannot install Thrift on my box, critical for our development.