diff --git a/lucene/contrib/contrib-build.xml b/lucene/contrib/contrib-build.xml
index ae8ed125124..5b287c5a7e2 100644
--- a/lucene/contrib/contrib-build.xml
+++ b/lucene/contrib/contrib-build.xml
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
     property="pom.xml.present">
   </available>
 			
-  <target name="dist-maven" if="pom.xml.present" depends="compile-core, jar-src">
+  <target name="dist-maven" if="pom.xml.present" depends="jar-core, jar-src, javadocs">
     <taskdef resource="org/apache/maven/artifact/ant/antlib.xml" 
              uri="antlib:org.apache.maven.artifact.ant" 
              classpathref="maven-ant-tasks.classpath"/>