On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, shreedhar natarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was a mention about targets in ANT manual. "It should be > noted, however, that Ant's depends attribute only specifies the > order in which targets should be executed - it does not affect > whether the target that specifies the dependency(s) gets executed if > the dependent target(s) did not (need to) run."
Honestly I don't understand it either. Just read on, the next few paragraphs should help you understand how target dependencies work in Ant - and just forget this one. > if my target A fails, target B wud have to fail if it depends on > A. but above statement looks contradictory !! If target A fails, the whole build fails and stops even before Ant reaches target B. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
