your main target should look like <target name="mymaintarget" depends="clean" > <task1/> <task2/> .... </target> then clean will be called. Is this OK ? Antoine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 4:37 PM Subject: executing a "clean" task
> Hi, > > I have written a very small build.xml script for ant modeled after the > example in the "Using Ant" docs on the Jakarta web site. The example I > followed includes a task named "clean", but neither the default task nor > any of its dependencies depend on "clean". Therefore, it will never be > executed. > > Is there a way to get a specific task to execute by passing in some > commandline parameter? Essentially I have modified the "clean" task in > my build.xml to delete the build directory, but I'm not sure how to get > "clean" to execute instead of "dist", which is my default task. I > didn't see mention of this in the docs, or I missed it, only how to set > property names/values from the command line with -D. > > > Thanks, > > Erik > > > -- > 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]>
