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Re: Windows package task, windows cannot fork

Patrick Hurley

11/15/2006 3:52:00 AM

On 11/14/06, Dominic Sisneros <dsisnero@gmail.com> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Dominic Sisneros <dsisnero@gmail.com>
> Date: Nov 9, 2006 3:12 PM
> Subject: windows xp package task
> To: Rake Development and Discussion <rake-devel@rubyforge.org>
>
> 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-win...
> 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.
>
>

If you are trying to avoid cygwin (and its path handling can be a good
reason, depending upon if you are trying to use Win32, rather than
pretend you are on Linux), but still want a functional Win32 tar check
out BsdTar:

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/...

Install and make a copy on your path with the name tar, works like a
charm for me.

pth