From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2004-11-04T11:12:35+09:00
Subject: Re: [RAKE] rdoc task fails on Win2k


On Nov 3, 2004, at 18:31, Jim Weirich wrote:

> On Wednesday 03 November 2004 06:51 pm, James Britt wrote:
>> rdoc -o doc --main 'README.rdoc' -T 'html' README.rdoc 
>> ./lib/catapult.rb
>> ./lib
>> rake aborted!
>> Command Failed: [rdoc -o doc --main 'README.rdoc' -T 'html' 
>> README.rdoc
>> ./lib/catapult.rb ./lib]
>
> Rake just feeds the command string to the system call.  Try executing
>
>   system %{rdoc -o doc --main 'README.rdoc' -T 'html'
>            README.rdoc ./lib/catapult.rb ./lib}
>
> and see what happens. If it fails the same way, then we need to figure 
> out
> what we need to feed windows to get it to run (e.g. maybe system
> %{rdoc.cmd ...} or something like that).

I believe that Rake might not be quoting the command (last time we saw 
a post about this, the path had spaces in it).


Cheers

Dave