From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-06-14T22:19:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Rakefile under Cygwin: permission denied


"Jim Menard" <jimm@io.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:16589.40362.469983.478717@io.com...
> The Rakefile
>
>     task :default => ['foo/bar']
>
>     directory 'foo'
>
>     file 'foo/bar' => ['foo'] do
>         sh 'touch foo/bar'
>     end
>
> fails if both the directory 'foo' and the file 'bar' within it exist.
>
>     c:/cygwin/tmp/> rake
>     (in c:/cygwin/tmp)
>     rake aborted!
>     Permission denied - foo
>     c:/cygwin/tmp/>
>
> As you can see from the command prompt, this is under Cygwin.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?

Did you verify that the commands work from the prompt?  Otherwise I'd
suspect a permissions problem.

Regards

    robert