can a target be used twice in a target

[Ja...@vodafone-us.com]

I'm try to use a target more than once, but it doesn't seem to run the
second time

eg.

<!-- jar: compile src files, and package into jar file -->
     <target name="jar" depends="cleanup, compile, package, cleanup"/>

the cleanup, deletes all the files in the classes directory. I want to this
before and after, since some of my build processes don't cleanup. and
before checking in,

thanks
jane
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Re: can a target be used twice in a target

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Jane Fraser <Ja...@vodafone-us.com> wrote:

> I'm try to use a target more than once, but it doesn't seem to run
> the second time

If it is part of the dependency graph for a target, each target will
be run at most once - so it doesn't change anything if you put the
name of a target into depends more than once.

If you are sure that you really want to do what your target definition
suggests,

<target name="jar" depends="cleanup, compile, package">
  <antcall target="cleanup" />
</target>

would do the trick.

But I'd suggest rethinking your design, why does your jar target
guarantee that cleanup has been run after it has finished.

Stefan

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