On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Luis Lavena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I consider this another bug, since the extension is not present or > required in other platforms, but looks like ruby on windows lookup for > executables is failing now. > > Please disregard previous message, a patch for Ruby is underway.
In our previous conversation, I had explained that a fully-qualified path as the first parameter to multi-argument system() is not interpolated, http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=22303&group_id=167&atid=715 Shell interpolation and executable-spawning are two separate, distinct ideas which are unfortunately smooshed together in the one system() command via the single-argument and multi-argument forms respectively. As I argue in that link, I think the only permanent solution is LAUNCH_RUBY_ARGS for multi-argument system(). It would cover all possible ruby implementations, including jruby. In any case, a permanent solution is far off. In the meantime I don't think Rake should be broken. Which means a workaround: jruby should use single-argument system() (shell interpolation will find jruby.bat), while all other implementations append EXEEXT, keeping multi-argument system(). _______________________________________________ Rake-devel mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rake-devel
