Bug 1021528

Summary:	ant does not accept targets starting by hyphen
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Vít Ondruch <vondruch>
Component:	ant	Assignee:	Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Vít Ondruch 2013-10-21 13:08:35 UTC

Description of problem:
I am trying to build target starting by hyphen by ant, but it fails unfortunately:

$ ant '-build-native-library'
Unknown argument: -build-native-library


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
$ rpm -q ant
ant-1.9.2-7.fc21.noarch


How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. ant '-build-native-library'
2.
3.

Actual results:
$ ant '-build-native-library'
Unknown argument: -build-native-library


Expected results:
$ ant '-build-native-library'
...
building the target


Additional info:
I might be mistaken, but it should work according to: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4256958/command-line-to-run-the-ant-task-with-hyphen-in-the-task-name

Comment 1 Vít Ondruch 2013-10-21 13:09:56 UTC

Please note that using double hyphen trick fails similarly:

$ ant -f build.xml -- -build-native-library
Unknown argument: --

Comment 2 Mikolaj Izdebski 2013-10-21 13:20:22 UTC

Targets beginning with a hyphen such as "-restart" are valid, and can be used to name targets that should not be called directly from the command line.

See upstream documentation: http://ant.apache.org/manual/targets.html