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Posted to user@ant.apache.org by "MacDonald, Ian" <ia...@securecomputing.com> on 2003/02/10 23:37:27 UTC

Order of evaluation for a target's "if" or "unless" attributes

I'm curious,

Are a target's "if" or "unless" attributes supposed to be evaluated before
or after executing target dependencies?  
This does not seem to be defined anywhere I've looked.

Thanks,

Ian
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Ian MacDonald
Secure Computing Corporation
ian_macdonald@securecomputing.com

Re: Order of evaluation for a target's "if" or "unless" attributes

Posted by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>.

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