Index: lucene/common-build.xml
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--- lucene/common-build.xml	(revision 1309512)
+++ lucene/common-build.xml	(working copy)
@@ -1151,7 +1151,7 @@
   <!-- VALIDATION work -->
 
   <!-- Generic placeholder target for if we add other validation tasks -->
-  <target name="validate" depends="compile-tools">
+  <target name="validate">
   </target>
 
   <property name="svn.export.dir" location="${build.dir}/svn-export"/>