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I'm not sure this is meaningful or if it makes any sense, but just for
curiosity I tried to execute rake tests against the rake gem itself
and I got a few errors (to be precise 3 failures and 5 errors in
total).

First of all, my ruby version:

C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rake-0.7.1>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32]

And this is the result of executing the tests:

C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rake-0.7.1>rake --trace
(in C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1)
** Invoke default (first_time)
** Invoke test_all (first_time)
** Invoke testdata (first_time)
** Execute testdata
mkdir -p testdata
** Execute test_all
C:/ruby/bin/ruby -w -Ilib "C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/
lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb" "test/test_clean.rb"
"test/test_definitions.rb" "test/test_earlytime.rb" "test/
test_filelist.rb" "test/test_fileutils.rb" "test/test_file_cre
ation_task.rb" "test/test_file_task.rb" "test/test_ftp.rb" "test/
test_makefile_loader.rb" "test/test_multitask.rb" "test
/test_namespace.rb" "test/test_package_task.rb" "test/test_pathmap.rb"
"test/test_rake.rb" "test/test_require.rb" "test/
test_rules.rb" "test/test_tasks.rb" "test/test_task_manager.rb" "test/
test_test_task.rb" "test/contrib/testsys.rb" "test
/functional.rb"
UNABLE TO RUN FUNCTIONAL TESTS
No Session Found
Loaded suite C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake/
rake_test_loader
Started
.........E.E...................................... ..................-e:
1:in `exit': no implicit conversion from nil to in
teger (TypeError)
from -e:1
FE.EF.........................................FE.. .................................................
Finished in 11.265 seconds.

1) Error:
test_create(TestEarlyTime):
ArgumentError: argument out of range
./test/test_earlytime.rb:9:in `mktime'
./test/test_earlytime.rb:9:in `test_create'

2) Error:
test_original_time_compare_is_not_messed_up(TestEa rlyTime):
ArgumentError: argument out of range
./test/test_earlytime.rb:24:in `mktime'
./test/test_earlytime.rb:24:in
`test_original_time_compare_is_not_messed_up'

3) Failure:
test_ruby(TestFileUtils)
[./test/test_fileutils.rb:116:in `test_ruby'
./lib/rake.rb:729:in `sh'
./lib/rake.rb:812:in `sh'
./lib/rake.rb:807:in `sh'
./lib/rake.rb:747:in `ruby'
./lib/rake.rb:812:in `ruby'
./lib/rake.rb:807:in `ruby'
./test/test_fileutils.rb:114:in `test_ruby'
./lib/rake.rb:831:in `verbose'
./test/test_fileutils.rb:110:in `test_ruby']:
<123> expected but was
<1>.

4) Error:
test_sh(TestFileUtils):
RuntimeError: Command failed with status (1): [test/shellcommand.rb]
./lib/rake.rb:722:in `sh'
./lib/rake.rb:729:in `sh'
./lib/rake.rb:812:in `sh'
./lib/rake.rb:807:in `sh'
./test/test_fileutils.rb:71:in `test_sh'
./lib/rake.rb:831:in `verbose'
./test/test_fileutils.rb:71:in `test_sh'

5) Error:
test_sh_multiple_arguments(TestFileUtils):
RuntimeError: Command failed with status (1): [test $RAKE_TEST_SH =
someval]
./lib/rake.rb:722:in `sh'
./lib/rake.rb:729:in `sh'
./lib/rake.rb:812:in `sh'
./lib/rake.rb:807:in `sh'
./test/test_fileutils.rb:78:in `test_sh_multiple_arguments'
./lib/rake.rb:831:in `verbose'
./test/test_fileutils.rb:78:in `test_sh_multiple_arguments'

6) Failure:
test_sh_special_handling(TestFileUtils)
[./test/test_fileutils.rb:96:in `test_sh_special_handling'
./lib/rake.rb:729:in `sh'
./lib/rake.rb:812:in `sh'
./lib/rake.rb:807:in `sh'
./test/test_fileutils.rb:95:in `test_sh_special_handling'
./lib/rake.rb:831:in `verbose'
./test/test_fileutils.rb:94:in `test_sh_special_handling']:
<false> is not true.

7) Failure:
test_each_dir_parent(TestRake) [./test/test_rake.rb:11]:
<["c:/a/b", "c:/a", "c:"]> expected but was
<["c:/a/b", "c:/a", "c:/"]>.

Error:
test_can_load_rake_library(TestRequire):
LoadError: Can't find test2
./lib/rake.rb:1813:in `rake_require'
./test/test_require.rb:11:in `test_can_load_rake_library'

166 tests, 515 assertions, 3 failures, 5 errors
rake aborted!
Command failed with status (1): [C:/ruby/bin/ruby -w -Ilib "C:/ruby/
lib/rub...]
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:722:in `sh'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:729:in `sh'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:812:in `sh'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:807:in `sh'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:747:in `ruby'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:812:in `ruby'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:807:in `ruby'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake/testtask.rb:117:in
`define'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:831:in `verbose'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake/testtask.rb:102:in
`define'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:387:in `execute'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:387:in `execute'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:357:in `invoke'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/thread.rb:135:in `synchronize'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:350:in `invoke'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:364:in
`invoke_prerequisites'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:999:in `each'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:363:in
`invoke_prerequisites'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:356:in `invoke'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/thread.rb:135:in `synchronize'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:350:in `invoke'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:1906:in `run'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:1906:in `run'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/bin/rake:7
C:/ruby/bin/rake.bat:25

Ciao
Giuliano