From: Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@...>
Date: 2006-11-15T11:35:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows package task, windows cannot fork

Dominic Sisneros 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-windows/which 
>
> 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.
>
That's wrong.  Cygwin's tar works fine with gzip.  Trying to run 
GnuWin's tar ( which is NOT Cygwin's tar ) via Cygwin most likely will 
not work, as GnuWin's tar has no idea what cygwin1.dll is nor how to 
interface with it.

$ tar cvfz gzipped.tgz TestP*rb
TestP2.rb
TestP3.rb
cyberhome: /C/Downloads>
$ tar tvfz gzipped.tgz
-rwx------ Administrator/None 32 2006-04-02 00:35 TestP2.rb
-rwx------ Administrator/None 115 2006-04-02 00:47 TestP3.rb
$ ll *tgz
-rwx------+ 1 Administrator None 4258 Feb 19  2005 tinywm-1.2.tgz*
-rw-rw-rw-  1 Administrator None  287 Nov 14 21:29 gzipped.tgz