Hello everyone, i am not able to reproduce amake being stuck, but i am experiencing excessive slowness. I traced that down to Rake::FileTask.needed?(to be more specific: Rake::FileTask.out_of_date?) taking a long time to recursively check the timestamps of all the prerequisites.
Modifying rake to have Rake::FileTask.out_of_date? like below helps immensely(collects the touched tasks first, then checks timestamps): def out_of_date?(stamp) all_prerequisite_tasks.any? { |prereq_task| if prereq_task.instance_of?(Rake::FileTask) prereq_task.timestamp > stamp || ! File.exist?(prereq_task.name) || @application.options.build_all else prereq_task.timestamp > stamp end } end The behaviour has changed between rake-12.0.0 and rake-12.1.0. In rake-12.0.0, out_of_date? only checked its own timestamp. Maybe this helps someone. Regards, Pierre _______________________________________________ Rock-dev mailing list Rock-dev@dfki.de http://www.dfki.de/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/rock-dev