Daniel Berger a ñÄrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> Windows XP
> Ruby 1.8.2
> Rake 0.5.4
> 
> When I tried this simple rakefile it went into an infinite loop (and
> leaks like a sieve).  Experiments show that it seems to be happening in
> the directory task.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> # rakefile
> require "rbconfig"
> require "rake/testtask"
> include Config
> 
> destdir = CONFIG["sitelibdir"] + "/html"
> directory destdir # Inifinite loop here
> 
> desc "Install html-table"
> task :install do |t|
>    FileUtils["lib/html/*.rb"].each{ |file|
>       cp(file, destdir)
>    }
> end
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dan
> 

It's a bug.

When constructing your destdir, you obtain something like this:
c:/usr/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/html
(this what I obtain on my computer)

But in rake.rb, on line 408, the code for directory is as this:
----8<----
def directory(dir)
   while dir != '.' && dir != '/' # work on unix but not on windows
     file dir do |t|
       mkdir_p t.name if ! File.exist?(t.name)
     end
     dir = File.dirname(dir)
   end
end
----8<----

I hope this will help

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