Getting around redundant dependency limitation in Ant? - ant

Question

The limitation I'm referring to is documented here.
Essentially, in my build script if I want to do a clean, build and then another clean I'm hitting an issue because Ant considers the clean task already complete.
Here is my ant;
<!-- ============================================================= -->
<!-- Clean up directories -->
<!-- ============================================================= -->
<target name="clean">
<delete dir="${dir.build}"/>
<delete dir="${dir.src}"/>
</target>
<!-- ============================================================= -->
<!-- Clean up ALL directories -->
<!-- ============================================================= -->
<target name="clean-all" depends="clean">
<delete dir="${dir.war}"/>
<delete dir="${dir.docs}"/>
</target>
<!-- ============================================================= -->
<!-- Clean-build target -->
<!-- ============================================================= -->
<target name="build-clean"
depends=
"build,
clean"
>
</target>
<!-- ============================================================= -->
<!-- Production target, cleans everything prior to build -->
<!-- ============================================================= -->
<target name="build-production"
depends=
"clean-all,
build-clean"
>
</target>
Build-production is the target I'm trying to correct, is there anyway to have it clean twice without creating another clean task or explicitly writing clean-all to delete the directories listed in clean?

Answer 1

Why not use antcall to explicitly call the clean target again as the final stage of your build-production target ?