sbt assemblyNoTest give Null Pointer Exception

[jdd112]

Ubuntu 18.04 with Java 8. Could you please help?
I get NPE when I run:
git clone https://github.com/twosigma/flint.git
cd flint
sbt assemblyNoTest

stacktrace is:

(base) jcarlson@smaaetlinuxsrv04:~/ts_flint/flint$ sbt assemblyNoTest
Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Xmx64g
Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Xmx64g
[info] Loading project definition from /home/jcarlson/ts_flint/flint/project
[info] Updating {file:/home/jcarlson/ts_flint/flint/project/}flint-build...
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by sbt.ivyint.ErrorMessageAuthenticator$ (file:/home/jcarlson/.sbt/boot/scala-2.10.6/org.scala-sbt/sbt/0.13.11/ivy-0.13.11.jar) to field java.net.Authenticator.theAuthenticator
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of sbt.ivyint.ErrorMessageAuthenticator$
WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release
[info] Resolving org.fusesource.jansi#jansi;1.4 ...
[info] Done updating.
java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.base/java.util.regex.Matcher.getTextLength(Matcher.java:1770)
at java.base/java.util.regex.Matcher.reset(Matcher.java:416)
at java.base/java.util.regex.Matcher.(Matcher.java:253)
at java.base/java.util.regex.Pattern.matcher(Pattern.java:1133)
at java.base/java.util.regex.Pattern.split(Pattern.java:1261)
at java.base/java.util.regex.Pattern.split(Pattern.java:1334)
at sbt.IO$.pathSplit(IO.scala:797)
at sbt.IO$.parseClasspath(IO.scala:912)
at sbt.compiler.CompilerArguments.extClasspath(CompilerArguments.scala:66)
at sbt.compiler.MixedAnalyzingCompiler$.withBootclasspath(MixedAnalyzingCompiler.scala:188)
at sbt.compiler.MixedAnalyzingCompiler$.searchClasspathAndLookup(MixedAnalyzingCompiler.scala:166)
at sbt.compiler.MixedAnalyzingCompiler$.apply(MixedAnalyzingCompiler.scala:176)
at sbt.compiler.IC$.incrementalCompile(IncrementalCompiler.scala:138)
at sbt.Compiler$.compile(Compiler.scala:152)
at sbt.Compiler$.compile(Compiler.scala:138)
at sbt.Defaults$.sbt$Defaults$$compileIncrementalTaskImpl(Defaults.scala:860)
at sbt.Defaults$$anonfun$compileIncrementalTask$1.apply(Defaults.scala:851)
at sbt.Defaults$$anonfun$compileIncrementalTask$1.apply(Defaults.scala:849)
at scala.Function1$$anonfun$compose$1.apply(Function1.scala:47)
at sbt.$tilde$greater$$anonfun$$u2219$1.apply(TypeFunctions.scala:40)
at sbt.std.Transform$$anon$4.work(System.scala:63)
at sbt.Execute$$anonfun$submit$1$$anonfun$apply$1.apply(Execute.scala:228)
at sbt.Execute$$anonfun$submit$1$$anonfun$apply$1.apply(Execute.scala:228)
at sbt.ErrorHandling$.wideConvert(ErrorHandling.scala:17)
at sbt.Execute.work(Execute.scala:237)
at sbt.Execute$$anonfun$submit$1.apply(Execute.scala:228)
at sbt.Execute$$anonfun$submit$1.apply(Execute.scala:228)
at sbt.ConcurrentRestrictions$$anon$4$$anonfun$1.apply(ConcurrentRestrictions.scala:159)
at sbt.CompletionService$$anon$2.call(CompletionService.scala:28)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:515)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834)
[error] (compile:compileIncremental) java.lang.NullPointerException
Project loading failed: (r)etry, (q)uit, (l)ast, or (i)gnore? q

[yezhengli-Mr9]

I go through this sbt assemblyNoTest by adding export TERM=xterm-color to bash file.