diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 2300ca389f..360accfa03 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -362,6 +362,7 @@
           	<exclusion groupId="org.mortbay.jetty" artifactId="servlet-api"/>
           	<exclusion groupId="commons-logging" artifactId="commons-logging"/>
           	<exclusion groupId="org.eclipse.jdt" artifactId="core"/>
+		    <exclusion groupId="ant" artifactId="ant"/>
           </dependency>
           <dependency groupId="org.apache.hadoop" artifactId="hadoop-minicluster" version="1.0.3"/>
           <dependency groupId="org.apache.pig" artifactId="pig" version="0.12.1"/>