jboss-cli.bat stops working

I compiled the latest snapshot for 9.0.0.Alpha2. However, jboss-cli.bat doesn't work anymore. When I compiled the snapshot last week (Wed. 10/30/14 ?) jboss-cli.bat was working fine. Here is an example for the broken jboss-cli.bat:

jboss-cli.bat -c --command=:shutdown
':shutdown' is assumed to be a command(s) but the commands to execute have been specified by another argument: [--command]