Running simple/common gradle tasks under earth_enterprise/rpms fails

[tst-rwildes]

On a clean system (one that never did a scons stage_install simple commands like gradle clean or even gradle tasks fail to run with the following below error output. These commands should succeeded and to the correct thing without having to run scons stage_install or even a scons build or any scons command. This was somewhat of an issue prior to 5.2.4 but during the 5.2.4 release we inadvertently made this issue much worse via changes done for #987

Error output:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/mnt/c/Users/rwildes/projects/geoplatform/earthenterprise/earth_enterprise/rpms/build.gradle' line: 100

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'rpms'.
>                 Runing `scons` to produce </tmp/fusion_os_install/gee_long_version.txt> failed!
                  Command: [/usr/bin/scons, release=1, /tmp/fusion_os_install/gee_long_version.txt]
                  Exit code: 2.
                  Error output:
                  scons: *** Do not know how to make File target `/tmp/fusion_os_install/gee_long_version.txt' (/tmp/fusion_os_install/gee_long_version.txt).  Stop.

                  Standard output:
                  scons: Reading SConscript files ...
  Checking for C library gtest... (cached) no
  Checking for C header file libpng12/png.h... (cached) yes
  scons: done reading SConscript files.
  scons: Building targets ...
  scons: building terminated because of errors.


* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

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BUILD FAILED in 5s

[tst-rwildes]

Closing as fix was merged.