Issue with Akka configuration files

[dph10]

Hello, I am trying to use the jlink-plugin to build an executable of my project, which has a dependency on Akka. As described by their documentation, there needs to be some way to append their text based configuration files for any time of jar bundling operation:

Warning
Akka’s configuration approach relies heavily on the notion of every module/jar having its own reference.conf file. All of these will be discovered by the configuration and loaded. Unfortunately this also means that if you put/merge multiple jars into the same jar, you need to merge all the reference.conf files as well: otherwise all defaults will be lost.
Akka Configuration Docs.

When I try building an executable with the jlink-plugin (using ./gradlew jlink) and then running the image, I do get a configuration file error based on the above statement. They provide some methods for doing this for fat-jars with different build tools here.

The shadowJar plugin has a capability for merging text files as described here, but unfortunately this is for building fat-jars when I really need to build an executable for a custom runtime image. Does the jlink-plugin or jlink itself have this capability? If not, is there someway to add this capability to your tool?