Executing tasks with broken symlinks

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My project (illustrated as below) has some ‘broken’ symlinks as placeholders intentionally.
However, in this case, gradle returns an error that could not list proper files.
I seek some good solutions for the problem (if possible I would like to keep using ‘broken’ symlinks, because that is very clear where files are located.)

  • project
    • subProject1
      • libs
        • subproject2_lib.jar -> …/…/subProject2/bin/subproject2_lib.jar
    • subProject2
      • bin
        • (Empty: subproject2_lib.jar will be generated through task “makeJar”)

subProject2 has a project with source codes that make "subproject2_lib.jar"
subProject1 requires the library that is generated in subProject2, which should be in “libs”

I tried these steps but gradle returned an error with ‘Could not list contents of …’

  • ‘project’ has a task “build”, which depends on “makeApp” and “makeJar”.
    • “makeApp” must run after “makeJar”
  • ‘subProject1’ has a task “makeApp”
  • ‘subProject2’ has a task “makeJar”