mustRunAfter seems to have no effect for multi-project builds

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I have a multi-project build with Gradle 2.0, where I want to defer all publish tasks to run after all build tasks have completed successfully, so that either all or none of the projects get published. I tried to use ‘mustRunAfter’, but without success. Therefore I reduced my setup to a minimal one:

Let’s assume a gradle multi-project build with two subprojects ‘foo’ and ‘bar’, each with a ‘build.gradle’ like this:

task ‘build’

task ‘publish’(dependsOn: build)

This will execute as:

$ gradlew publish

:bar:build UP-TO-DATE

:bar:publish UP-TO-DATE

:foo:build UP-TO-DATE

:foo:publish UP-TO-DATE

Then I added the following ‘build.gradle’ to the root project:

def allBuilds = task build

subprojects {

afterEvaluate {

allBuilds.dependsOn build

publish.mustRunAfter allBuilds

}

}

But this does not change the execution order.

If I, however, change ‘mustRunAfter’ into ‘dependsOn’, the execution looks like this:

$ gradlew publish

:bar:build UP-TO-DATE

:foo:build UP-TO-DATE

:build UP-TO-DATE

:bar:publish UP-TO-DATE

:foo:publish UP-TO-DATE

The downside of course is, that I cannot execute any subproject’s :publish without all other projects :build being invoked. Is this a bug with mustRunAfter for multi-projects, am I doing it wrong or is there a better alternative to achieve this?

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The problem seems to be, that the ‘:build’ task is not actually executed, therefore the ‘mustRunAfter’ has no effect. Instead of one root ‘build’ task, I had to declare dependencies between all projects individually:

subprojects {

afterEvaluate {

publish.dependsOn assemble

publish.mustRunAfter parent.subprojects*.assemble

}

}

I used ‘assemble’ instead of ‘build’ to avoid running all tests, just like ‘publish’ does.