There are normal cases ( antcall) where the same build file is parsed many times ( this could be avoided now - as an optimization ). It is a problem only in import, because of the target conflict resolution. ( targets are qualified with the project name ) git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@273769 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68master