When generating IDEA project (using idea plugin) from a symlink directory the paths to dependencies are wrong.

see these posts:

• http://gradle.1045684.n5.nabble.com/intellij-idea-wrong-path-to-dependencies-if-opened-from-symbolic-link-td2814704.html#a2814704
• http://gradle.1045684.n5.nabble.com/Idea-Plugin-and-dependency-paths-td3213717.html#a3213717

citing Steve Ebersole:
> http://www.gradle.org/0.9-rc-1/docs/userguide/idea_plugin.html#N13638
>That documentation says:
><quote>
>The paths of the dependencies in the generated Idea files are absolute.
></quote>
>That is either incorrect or misleading. What actually happens is that you get
>an absolute path I guess, but its relative to $MODULE_DIR. For example I have
>paths like:
><root
url="jar://$MODULE_DIR$/../../../../../.gradle/cache/dom4j/dom4j/jars/dom4j-1.6.1.jar!/"/>