It looks like a fileset using the includesfile attribute skips the entries with a relative path starting with "./".

Here is an example illustrating the issue, a simple class importing an Ant package is compiled. The elements of the classpath are defined in a 'dependencies' file. The first compilation uses a relative path starting directly with the name of the jar, and the second compilation uses a relative path prefixed by "./". The first compilation works but the second one fails:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project default="compile">

  <target name="compile">
    <copy file="${ant.home}/lib/ant.jar" todir="."/>
    <echo file="Test.java">import org.apache.tools.ant.types.*; public class Test {}</echo>

    <echo file="dependencies">ant.jar</echo>
    <javac srcdir="." destdir="." includeantruntime="false">
      <classpath>
        <fileset dir="." includesfile="dependencies"/>
      </classpath>
    </javac>

    <delete file="Test.class"/>

    <echo file="dependencies">./ant.jar</echo>
    <javac srcdir="." destdir="." includeantruntime="false">
      <classpath>
        <fileset dir="." includesfile="dependencies"/>
      </classpath>
    </javac>
  </target>

</project>