v1.0.2 tag build issues

I recently downloaded the spring source using git clone and it built fine using gradlew. I then checked out the 1.0.2RELEASE tag so as I'm only allowed using official released versions for the most part. The reason I need to compile spring social is I need a version that is officially released but can also incorporate a few patches for some bugs that have been fixed. I need the changes that were made for this: https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-social/pull/35 and this: https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-social/pull/48. I applied those 2 patches to 1.0.2release and then tried to build using gradlew and am getting this error:
* Where:
Script '/home/rvaldron/newworkspacesam/spring-social/buildSrc/docs.gradle' line: 18

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating script.
Cause: Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration 'classpath':
- unresolved dependency: org.apache.xerces#resolver;2.9.1: java.text.ParseException: Already seen doctype.
- unresolved dependency: org.apache.xerces#xercesImpl;2.9.1: java.text.ParseException: Already seen doctype.

I believe it's related to this: https://github.com/vkolodrevskiy/spr...takte/issues/6
can anyone offer some advice? i'm not too familiar with gradle or maven to be honest.

Is there something else I should be doing to build this tag?

Thanks!