[Rake-devel] Rules in Rake

[Jim Weirich]

Link, Claudius said:
> Hello,
>
> to take more advantage of rake I was trying
> to use rules.
> But I simply don't manage :-(
>
> I use the simple rule from the documentation
> and put it into a rakefile
>
> simplerule.rb
> ----------
> require 'rake'
>
> task :default => [ "test1.o" ]
>
> rule '.o' => ['.c'] do |t|
>         print "cc #{t.source} -c -o #{t.name}"
> end
> ----------
>
> Now neither
>  rake -f simplerule.rb
> nor
>   rake -f simplerule.rb test2.o
>
> work like I expected. I seam to miss something
> Does someone know what %-|?

The most obvious question is: Do you have a test2.c file available.

Here is a sample session on my machine, using your rakefile...

== BEGIN SAMPLE ==============================================
$ ls
simplerule.rb
test1.c
$
$ cat simplerule.rb
require 'rake'

task :default => [ "test1.o" ]

rule '.o' => ['.c'] do |t|
  puts "cc #{t.source} -c -o #{t.name}"
end
$
$
$ rake -f simplerule.rb
(in c:/weirich/pgm/ruby/rakestuff/x)

cc test1.c -c -o test1.o
$
== END SAMPLE ========================================

BTW, the "require 'rake'" isn't strictly required in a rakefile.  Since
the rake program runs it, the rake libarary is alread loaded.

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