How should multiple targets on the command line work?

[KC Baltz <KB...@responsenetworks.com>]

I often run ant like this:
 
ant target1 target2 target3
 
What I've found is that this has the same effect as running 
ant target1
ant target2
and target3
 
In other words, even if target1 and target2 depend on the same tasks, those
tasks still get run twice.  I didn't see anything in the docs saying how
this should work, so this is not neccesarily a bug.  I would just like the
speed improvement that comes with not reevaluating targets unneccesarily.  I
would kind of like to see it work as a sort-of "ad-hoc dependency
definition".  So specifying "target1 target2 target3" implies target2
depends on target1 and target3 depends on target2.  
 
K.C.

Re: How should multiple targets on the command line work?

[Peter Donald <do...@mad.scientist.com>]

Personally I like it working like that as I often go

ant clean main

for a complete rebuild.

if tou want to reduce duplicity it is best to add a target in build file - ie 

<target name="t4" depends="t1,t2,t3" />

and just use

ant t4 

that works great (and is what my main target in all my buildfiles does :P)

Cheers,

Pete

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