Android gradle build fails with "Invalid revision: latest"

Builds for Android on macOS fail with:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• Where:
  Build file '/Users/nic/Sources/Qt/linotune/build-linotune-Android_Qt_5_12_10_Clang_armeabi_v7a-Debug/android-build/build.gradle' line: 39

• What went wrong:
  A problem occurred evaluating root project 'android-build'.
  > Invalid revision: latest

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

Replacing "latest" with the actual build tools version for androidBuildToolsVersion in gradle.properties in the build directory resolves the problem.

"latest" in my AndroidSDK is a symbolic link - perhaps someone in the toolchain can't handle that?