Haven't read till the end, but by design target's run their dependencies (targets listed in the 'depends' attribute) before evaluating the 'if'/'unless'. Confusing yes, but by design. --DD
-----Original Message----- From: Jacob Kjome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 1:15 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: odd behavior on <target ... unless="someproperty"> Hi, I'm using Ant-1.5.1beta1. I'm having an issue with a target running its dependencies even though unless="someproperty" is specified on that target *and* the "someproperty" was specified on the command line as "-Dsomeproperty=true". Here is the relevant Ant code... <target name="specify.subproject" unless="subproject" > <input message="Please enter the subproject. eg... [all|dbroggisch|other...]:" addproperty="subproject" /> </target> <target name="specify.subtarget" unless="subtarget" > <input message="Please enter the subtarget. eg... [all|clean|compile|install|remove]:" addproperty="subtarget" /> </target> <target name="specify.property.control" unless="subprojectskip" depends="specify.subproject,specify.subtarget" /> <target name="check.subproject.control" depends="specify.property.control" > .... .... .... </target> So, when the "check.subproject.control" gets called, it runs its dependency first which is "specify.property.control", which should skip its dependencies of "specify.subproject" and "specify.subtarget" if the property "subprojectskip" exists which it does when entered on the command line such as... ant -Dsubprojectskip=true contrib However, both the "specify.subproject" and "specify.subtarget" targets get invoked and prompt me for input. I want to be able to disable prompting for input and it seems like what I'm currently doing should properly disable it, but it doesn't seem to work. Am I missing something here? The other weird thing about this is that if I do the following, I don't get prompted: ant -Dsubproject=dbroggisch -subtarget=compile contrib So, the "unless" on "specify.subproject" and "specify.subtarget" seem to be honored....although they don't have dependencies so maybe if I added dependencies I would see the same behavior of those dependencies running when they shouldn't just like in "specify.property.control". Any ideas? Have I discovered a bug in Ant-1.5.1beta1? Jake -- Best regards, Jacob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
