Thankyou - that works for me. Not sure what I can do about it but will check with the IT team what has happened to my usual home directory!
$ gradle -g /tmp --version
Gradle 2.10
Build time: 2015-12-21 21:15:04 UTC
Build number: none
Revision: 276bdcded730f53aa8c11b479986aafa58e124a6
Groovy: 2.4.4
Ant: Apache Ant™ version 1.9.3 compiled on December 23 2013
JVM: 1.8.0_65 (Oracle Corporation 25.65-b01)
OS: Linux 3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek.x86_64 amd64
$ gradle --version
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
- What went wrong:
Failed to load native library ‘libnative-platform.so’ for Linux amd64.