diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/elasticsearch/gradle/BuildPlugin.groovy b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/elasticsearch/gradle/BuildPlugin.groovy
index 916a2c6047aed..242ab50c897fa 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/elasticsearch/gradle/BuildPlugin.groovy
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/elasticsearch/gradle/BuildPlugin.groovy
@@ -486,7 +486,9 @@ class BuildPlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
 
         project.pluginManager.withPlugin('com.github.johnrengelman.shadow') {
             // Ensure that when we are compiling against the "original" JAR that we also include any "shadow" dependencies on the compile classpath
-            project.configurations.getByName(JavaPlugin.API_ELEMENTS_CONFIGURATION_NAME).extendsFrom(project.configurations.getByName(ShadowBasePlugin.CONFIGURATION_NAME))
+            project.configurations.getByName(ShadowBasePlugin.CONFIGURATION_NAME).dependencies.all { Dependency dependency ->
+                project.configurations.getByName(JavaPlugin.API_ELEMENTS_CONFIGURATION_NAME).dependencies.add(dependency)
+            }
         }
     }