Task ':reportTestScoverage' uses this output of task ':installDist' without declaring an explicit or implicit dependency

[dsilvasc]

I just noticed an issue similar to #163

When I have a project with both the scoverage plugin and the application plugin, and I run this:

./gradlew installDist reportTestScoverage

Then the build fails with:

Some problems were found with the configuration of task ':reportTestScoverage' (type 'ScoverageReport').
  - Gradle detected a problem with the following location: '/Users/dsilva/src/example-project'.

    Reason: Task ':reportTestScoverage' uses this output of task ':installDist' without declaring an explicit or implicit dependency. This can lead to incorrect results being produced, depending   on what order the tasks are executed.

    Possible solutions:
      1. Declare task ':installDist' as an input of ':reportTestScoverage'.
      2. Declare an explicit dependency on ':installDist' from ':reportTestScoverage' using Task#dependsOn.
      3. Declare an explicit dependency on ':installDist' from ':reportTestScoverage' using Task#mustRunAfter.

    Please refer to https://docs.gradle.org/8.0/userguide/validation_problems.html#implicit_dependency for more details about this problem.
  - Gradle detected a problem with the following location: '/Users/dsilva/src/example-project'.

    Reason: Task ':reportTestScoverage' uses this output of task ':startScripts' without declaring an explicit or implicit dependency. This can lead to incorrect results being produced, depending  on what order the tasks are executed.

    Possible solutions:
      1. Declare task ':startScripts' as an input of ':reportTestScoverage'.
      2. Declare an explicit dependency on ':startScripts' from ':reportTestScoverage' using Task#dependsOn.
      3. Declare an explicit dependency on ':startScripts' from ':reportTestScoverage' using Task#mustRunAfter.

    Please refer to https://docs.gradle.org/8.0/userguide/validation_problems.html#implicit_dependency for more details about this problem.

I'm working around it with what the error message suggested:

tasks.withType<org.scoverage.ScoverageReport>().configureEach {
  try {
    val installDist = tasks.named("installDist")
    mustRunAfter(installDist)
  } catch (e: UnknownTaskException) {}
  try {
    val startScripts = tasks.named("startScripts")
    mustRunAfter(startScripts)
  } catch (e: UnknownTaskException) {}
}

but it seems like the scoverage plugin might be using the project root dir unnecessarily?