target dependencies

[Laurie Harper <la...@holoweb.net>]

It's been a while since I've written an Ant build file, so I may be 
missing something obvious here... can anyone shine a light for me? I 
have targets that have common dependencies and if I try to run them in a 
single invocation Ant executes the common dependency repeatedly.

Here's an example:

$ cat build.xml
<project default="target2">
         <target name="init">
                 <echo message="init"/>
     </target>

         <target name="target1" depends="init">
         <echo message="target1"/>
         </target>

         <target name="target2" depends="init">
         <echo message="target2"/>
         </target>
</project>

$ ant target1 target2
Buildfile: build.xml

init:
      [echo] init

target1:
      [echo] target1

init:
      [echo] init

target2:
      [echo] target2

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 1 second
$


I was only expecting 'init' to be run once... that's the way I remember 
things working. Am I doing something wrong, or is Ant?

Thanks,

L.


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Re: target dependencies

[Mark Lundquist <ml...@comcast.net>]

On May 6, 2005, at 8:41 PM, Laurie Harper wrote:

> I was only expecting 'init' to be run once... that's the way I 
> remember things working. Am I doing something wrong, or is Ant?

You're not doing anything wrong... you're just remembering wrong :-)

The way it's working is the way it works.

cheers,
—ml—


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