From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2004-06-14T23:24:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Rakefile under Cygwin: permission denied

Robert,

> As far as I know the complicated rights management of Win / NTFS I suspect
> it is possible to reject permissions even for admins.  So, this is an
> option... :-)
> 
> > Actually, what's failing is deep inside rake. Its "timestamp" method
> calls
> 
> Then maybe you should post a stack trace to aid in Rake debugging.

Good point.

rake --trace
(in c:/jmenard)
** Invoke default (first_time)
rake aborted!
Permission denied - foo
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.3.2/lib/rake.rb:263:in `initialize'
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.3.2/lib/rake.rb:263:in `new'
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.3.2/lib/rake.rb:263:in `timestamp'
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.3.2/lib/rake.rb:256:in `needed?'
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.3.2/lib/rake.rb:256:in `collect'
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.3.2/lib/rake.rb:256:in `needed?'
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.3.2/lib/rake.rb:107:in `trace_flags'
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.3.2/lib/rake.rb:95:in `invoke'
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.3.2/lib/rake.rb:99:in `invoke'
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.3.2/lib/rake.rb:99:in `each'
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.3.2/lib/rake.rb:99:in `invoke'
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.3.2/lib/rake.rb:862:in `run'
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.3.2/lib/rake.rb:862:in `each'
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.3.2/lib/rake.rb:862:in `run'
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.3.2/bin/rake:7
/ruby/bin/rake:12:in `load'
/ruby/bin/rake:12


Jim
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