How to have common definitions of the Cucumber step with their own Spring context configuration, despite the fact that "Annotations differ by glue classes found"

Question

I have an application that has been tested with Cucumber, but since the upgrade (Cucumber 1.1.6 to 1.2.5, java 1.6 to 1.8, Spring 3.2.0 to 4.2.6) it no longer works because it complains about Annotations differs on glue classes found

The structure is as follows:

• Some common steps requiring property values
• More specific steps requiring some @ContextConfiguration

Both of them must also share a bean.

The common part will never start on its own. But I have several tests, each of which uses its own special steps. Now he refuses to run due Annotations differs on glue classes found.
Is there a way to make this work without polluting the general context with the specifics of a particular context?

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Step Definitions:

@ContextConfiguration("classpath:cucumber-common.xml")
public class CommonStepdefs {
    @Autowired
    private SharedBean sharedBean;
    @Value("${some.property}")
    private String someProperty;

    // actual step def methods
}

@ContextConfiguration("classpath:cucumber-concrete.xml")
public class ConcreteStepdefs {
    @Autowired
    private SharedBean sharedBean;
    @Autowired
    private OtherBean otherBean;

    // actual step def methods
}

Spring general configuration:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">

    <context:property-placeholder location="classpath:com/example/cucumber-common.properties"/>
    <context:spring-configured/>
    <context:annotation-config/>

    <bean id="glueCodeScope" class="cucumber.runtime.java.spring.GlueCodeScope"/>
    <bean id="glueCodeScopeConfigurer" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.CustomScopeConfigurer">
        <property name="scopes">
            <map>
                <entry key="cucumber-glue" value-ref="glueCodeScope"/>
            </map>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <bean id="sharedBean" class="com.example.SharedBean" scope="cucumber-glue"/>
</beans>

Another Spring configuration (which imports the generic):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">

    <import resource="classpath:cucumber-common.xml"/>

    <context:spring-configured/>
    <context:annotation-config/>
    <context:component-scan base-package="com.example.rest"/>

    <!-- more bean definitions -->
</beans>

Tests are performed using:

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@CucumberOptions(
    format = { "html:target/cucumber-html-report", "json:target/cucumber-json-report.json" },
    glue = { "com.example.common", "com.example.concrete" },
    monochrome = true,
    strict = true)