RE: Order of evaluation for a target's "if" or "unless" attribute s

["MacDonald, Ian" <ia...@securecomputing.com>]

Thanks guys,

I guess I forgot to check the faq first.  I had observed this behavior but
didn't see it defined in the Ant manual.  I just wanted to know if the
execution order was defined before I relied upon it.

Regards,

-- Ian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:bodewig@apache.org] 
> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 11:05 PM
> To: user@ant.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Order of evaluation for a target's "if" or 
> "unless" attributes
> 
> 
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Ian MacDonald <ia...@securecomputing.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Are a target's "if" or "unless" attributes supposed to be evaluated 
> > before or after executing target dependencies?
> 
> The depends clause is evaluated before *any* target has been 
> run, the if/unless attributes get evaluated at the time the 
> target with these attributes is about to get run.
> 
> > This does not seem to be defined anywhere I've looked.
> 
<http://ant.apache.org/faq.html#stop-dependency>

Stefan

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