ant fileset dir exclude certain directory

Question

There are many questions on this topic but none of the answers are solving my problem. Starting this thread again to get fresh input.

I tried two different approaches for excluding B-dir and all its contents under A-dir/subdir. But none work. FYI, a-dir is under dir.src 1)

  <copy todir="${dir.classes}" excludes="A-dir/**/B-dir/**">
  <fileset dir="${dir.src}" >
    <exclude name="**/*.java"/>
  </fileset>
  </copy>

2)

  <copy todir="${dir.classes}">
  <fileset dir="${dir.src}" >
    <exclude name="**/*.java"/>
    <exclude name="A-dir/**/B-dir/**"/>
  </fileset>
  </copy>

I tried deleting all old jars and do a clean compile like someone suggested. But that doesn't help either.

Answer 1

I think it should probably be:

<copy todir="${dir.classes}">
<fileset dir="${dir.src}" >
  <exclude name="**/*.java"/>
  <exclude name="**/A-dir/**/B-dir/**"/>
</fileset>
</copy>

Note the **/A-dir/** instead of A-dir/**.