I just tried to reproduce your issue but couldn't. This is my setup:

repositories {
mavenCentral()
}

configurations {
arquillian
}

dependencies {
arquillian 'org.jboss.arquillian.container:arquillian-container-spi:1.1.1.Final'
}

task copyLibs(type: Copy) {
from configurations.arquillian
into "$buildDir/libs"
}

Maybe you can try this out on your machine to see it that works for you (run the task copyLibs). If it does work, then I think we'd need to see some details of your build script.

Hi Benjamin,

thanks for getting back on this one. Your script works on my machine. We are fetching from a local ivy repo so I need to setup a test case for this.

Hi Benjamin,

i've prepared a test case for this:

Download 7z from [1]http://ge.tt/2gqGjgG1/v/0?c
Extract password 'gradleWithPerforce'

Needs a windows machine:

• In one cmd shell run "startPerforce.bat" which starts a test perforce server on port 1670 (keep this running).
• In another shell run 'gradle build'

This works with gradle 1.7, but fails with 1.9, 1.10, and 1.12 nightly.

E:\Temp\GradleIvyResolve>gradle --refresh-dependencies build
Build file 'E:\Temp\GradleIvyResolve\build.gradle': line 15
The ArtifactRepositoryContainer.add(DependencyResolver, Closure) method has been deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in Gradle 2.0.
:compileJava

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong:
  Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':compile'.
  > Could not resolve org.slf4j:slf4j-log4j12:1.7.5.
  Required by:
  :GradleIvyResolve:unspecified
  > Failed to add into filestore 'D:
  E:\Temp\GradleIvyResolve>gradle --refresh-dependencies build
  Build file 'E:\Temp\GradleIvyResolve\build.gradle': line 15
  The ArtifactRepositoryContainer.add(DependencyResolver, Closure) method has been deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in Gradle 2.0.
  :compileJava

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong:
  Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':compile'.
  > Could not resolve org.slf4j:slf4j-log4j12:1.7.5.
  Required by:
  :GradleIvyResolve:unspecified
  > Failed to add into filestore 'D:\.gradle\caches\modules-2\metadata-2.1\descriptors' at 'org.slf4j/slf4j-log4j12/1.7.5/e42cd7cc8222da755ac37e0c7396c5c6/ivy.xml'

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

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 3.594 secs
#46;gradle\caches\modules-2\metadata-2.1\descriptors' at 'org.slf4j/slf4j-log4j12/1.7.5/e42cd7cc8222da755ac37e0c7396c5c6/ivy.xml'

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

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 3.594 secs

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[1] http://ge.tt/2gqGjgG1/v/0?c

Unfortunately, I currently don't have a Windows machine at hand. In the meantime can you give use the stack trace of this error (-s flag on the command line)?

This is the relevant [1]stack trace.
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[1] https://gist.github.com/radimk/8733635