In a multiproject that has not been been built yet, the eclipse Cp task fails to generate a .classpath file for eclipse if the jars from dependent multiprojects are not yet in the internal-repository. As gradle Project dependencies are mapped to eclipse "projects on the build path", there should be no need to resolve the output jars.

THis might be related to GRADLE-576

To reproduce, add usePlugin('eclipse') to samples/userguide/multiproject/dependencies/java/build.gradle and then run 'gradle eclipse' from the api folder. It generates this error:

$ gradle eclipse
:api:eclipseCp
:: problems summary ::
:::: WARNINGS
module not found: org.gradle.sample#shared;1.0

==== clientModule: tried

==== internal-repository: tried

/private/var/automount/home/crotwell/dev/gradle/src/samples/userguide/multiproject/dependencies/java/.gradle/internal-repository/org.gradle.sample/shared/ivy-1.0.xml

– artifact org.gradle.sample#shared;1.0!shared.jar:

/private/var/automount/home/crotwell/dev/gradle/src/samples/userguide/multiproject/dependencies/java/.gradle/internal-repository/org.gradle.sample/shared/jars/shared-1.0.jar

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

:: UNRESOLVED DEPENDENCIES ::

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

:: org.gradle.sample#shared;1.0: not found

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Build failed with an exception.
Run with -s or -d option to get more details. Run with -f option to get the full (very verbose) stacktrace.

Empty build file

Execution failed for task ':api:eclipseCp'.
Cause: Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration 'testRuntime':

• unresolved dependency: org.gradle.sample#shared;1.0: not found

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 9.765 secs

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Gradle 0.8-20090728100643+1000
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Gradle buildtime: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:06:43 AM EST
Groovy: 1.6.3
Ant: Apache Ant version 1.7.0 compiled on December 13 2006
Ivy: 2.1.0-rc2
Java: 1.5.0_19
JVM: 1.5.0_19-138
JVM Vendor: "Apple Computer, Inc."
OS Name: Mac OS X