[hibernate-dev] gradle build problems

[David Mansfield]

Fresh checkout of master (4.0) from github, and ./gradlew yields:

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		::          UNRESOLVED DEPENDENCIES         ::

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		:: org.slf4j#slf4j-api;1.6.0: not found

		:: xml-apis#xml-apis;1.0.b2: not found

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I do not have any .m2 directory locally, and repository.jboss.org and
snapshots.jboss.org do not have the versions of the projects listed
above.  However, repo2.maven.org has these artifacts, but the
configuration is not looking there.

Can someone point me how to get my .m2 initialized with the missing
resources, or how to get gradle to search maven.org?

(note: build.gradle specifies version 1.5.8, yet 1.6.0 is being
requested, also something I cannot understand).