On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Luis Lavena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 2:56 PM, James M. Lawrence > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > Yes Lawrence, I remember our talk and that's why I published a follow > up to this message: > > http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rake-devel/2008-November/000620.html > > > 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(). > > So this approach will define RUBY (around line 900 in lib/rake.rb) > depending on the platforms, and append the full extension. That is > correct? > > RUBY = File.join(Config::CONFIG['bindir'], > Config::CONFIG['ruby_install_name']) > RUBY << Config::CONFIG['EXEEXT'] unless RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /java/ > RUBY.sub!(/.*\s.*/m, '"\&"') For multi-argument, the first argument is a file name, so you don't have to worry about spaces, and adding quotes will fail finding that file. Assaf > > > Thoughts? > > -- > Luis Lavena > AREA 17 > - > Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from > the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent > disinclination to do so. > Douglas Adams > _______________________________________________ > Rake-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rake-devel >
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