Can I programmatically get the target name in Ant?

From: Carlo Broglia (brogliacarlo_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/02/04

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    hello,

    I can't figure out how I can access the name of the target I am
    building.

    <target name="buildCommsServer" depends="init">
       <antcall target="do.bldfiles.abld.runabld">
          <param name="application.dir"
    value="${commsserver.application.dir}"/>
              <param name="result" value="commsserver.result"/>
              <param name="logfile" value="${target.name}"/>
       </antcall>
    </target>

    In this example, the antcall target ="do.bldfiles.abld.runabld" is
    doing the actual compilation steps, as well as generating a log file.
    I am calling the antcall target several times with different projects
    to build (a subroutine, for lack of a better name) and I would like to
    have the log file named the same as the target.

    Obviously using "${target.name}" is the wrong syntax, but I was
    wondering if there was a way to get to it. Of course I can just copy
    and paste the string, or create a property, but it would be less
    automated than I like.

    thanks,
    Carlo

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