[gradle-user] Compile error because of unresolved dependencies in custom source sets

[Martin Dobmeier]

Hi,

I've recently upgraded a project from M3 to M6. With M6 I failed to compile
the project because dependencies needed within custom source sets were not
resolved correctly.

I've got a simple build file like the following:

apply plugin: "java"

repositories {
  mavenCentral()
}

sourceSets {
  antlr
}

dependencies {
  compile(group: "org.antlr", name: "antlr-runtime", version: "3.3") {
    exclude module: "stringtemplate"
  }
}

The source set "antlr" contains a single Java class which uses classes from
the "org.antlr.runtime" package. Doing "gradle compileAntlrJava" works just
fine with M4 and below. However, starting with M5 it fails with a compile
error "package org.antlr.runtime does not exist". I read the M5 release
notes, but couldn't find anything which would explain this behavior. Now I
hope that somebody can tell me what the problem is? Did I miss anything?

Thanks a lot
Martin