---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dominic Sisneros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Nov 9, 2006 3:12 PM Subject: windows xp package task To: Rake Development and Discussion <[email protected]>
On windows, I use the GnuWin32 tar package. When I try to use the package task it gave me an error that windows cannot fork. Looking online, I find this blog post http://blog.labnotes.org/2005/11/03/creating-zip-and-tar-packages-with-rake-on-windows/which has the following Creating a zip package worked on the first try, but tar complained that it *'Cannot fork: Function not implemented' *. It turns out that Cygwin's tar can't run gzip. So once again, it's time to fix the Rake source code. This time we're talking about *rake/packagetask.rb*, line 117 that calls tar with the z option. I replaced that one line with a separate call to tar and gzip: sh %{tar cvf #{package_name}.tar #{package_name}} if flag == 'z' sh %{gzip #{package_name}.tar} end You'll need to be a bit more fancy if you want to support both .tar.gz and .tgz suffixes, but this little fix will allow you to create .tar.gz. I did this and the package task worked.
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