title: sbt 0.13.8 URI has an authority component
body: <p>I get this error when running sbt in a sbt project. I have JDK 8 and sbt 0.13.8. I can run activator command without a problem but I need sbt working because my IDE (IntelliJ IDEA) uses it to load the project.</p>
  
  <pre><code>E:\work\workspace\knowlege\play-scala-di&gt;sbt
      Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=256m; support was removed in 8.0
      java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI has an authority component
      at java.io.File.&lt;init&gt;(File.java:423)
      at sbt.Classpaths$.sbt$Classpaths$$bootRepository(Defaults.scala:1758)
      at sbt.Classpaths$$anonfun$appRepositories$1.apply(Defaults.scala:1729)
      at sbt.Classpaths$$anonfun$appRepositories$1.apply(Defaults.scala:1729)
      at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:244)
              at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:244)
              at scala.collection.IndexedSeqOptimized$class.foreach(IndexedSeqOptimized.scala:33)
      at scala.collection.mutable.WrappedArray.foreach(WrappedArray.scala:34)
      at scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.map(TraversableLike.scala:244)
      at scala.collection.AbstractTraversable.map(Traversable.scala:105)
      at sbt.Classpaths$.appRepositories(Defaults.scala:1729)
      at sbt.Classpaths$$anonfun$41.apply(Defaults.scala:1102)
      at sbt.Classpaths$$anonfun$41.apply(Defaults.scala:1102)
      at scala.Function1$$anonfun$compose$1.apply(Function1.scala:47)
      at scala.Function1$$anonfun$compose$1.apply(Function1.scala:47)
      at sbt.EvaluateSettings$MixedNode.evaluate0(INode.scala:175)
      at sbt.EvaluateSettings$INode.evaluate(INode.scala:135)
      at sbt.EvaluateSettings$$anonfun$sbt$EvaluateSettings$$submitEvaluate$1.apply$mcV$sp(INode.scala:69)
      at sbt.EvaluateSettings.sbt$EvaluateSettings$$run0(INode.scala:78)
      at sbt.EvaluateSettings$$anon$3.run(INode.scala:74)
      at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
      at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
      [error] java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI has an authority component
  </code></pre>