Re: [NAnt-users] Removing smbolic links

[Aquil H. Abdullah]

Thanks I'll give it a try.

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Gert Driesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>  Aquil,
>
>
>
> This should work using a recent version of Mono (built from SVN HEAD).
>
>
>
> Gert
>
>
>
> *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Aquil H. Abdullah
> *Sent:* woensdag 23 juli 2008 19:48
> *To:* nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* [NAnt-users] Removing smbolic links
>
>
>
> Hello All,
>   Sometimes when I execute my clean target it fails because files can't be
> deleted. For example, if I have a build file that looks as follows:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <project name="sym" default="build" basedir=".">
>   <target name="build">
>     <touch file="foo.so" />
>     <exec program="/bin/ln">
>       <arg line="-s /home/aha/devel/nant/foo.so foo.so.0" />
>     </exec>
>   </target>
>   <target name="clean">
>     <delete file="/home/aha/devel/nant/foo.so" />
>     <delete file="/home/aha/devel/nant/foo.so.0" />
>   </target>
> </project>
>
> And then execute it as follows:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] nant]$ nant
> NAnt 0.85 (Build 0.85.2478.0; release; 10/14/2006)
> Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Gerry Shaw
> http://nant.sourceforge.net
>
> Buildfile: file:///home/aha/devel/nant/sym.build
> Target framework: Mono 2.0 Profile
> Target(s) specified: build
>
>
> build:
>
>
> BUILD SUCCEEDED
>
> Total time: 0.1 seconds.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] nant]$ ls
> foo.so  foo.so.0  sym.build  sym.build~
>
> and finally execute the clean target:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] nant]$ nant clean
> NAnt 0.85 (Build 0.85.2478.0; release; 10/14/2006)
> Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Gerry Shaw
> http://nant.sourceforge.net
>
> Buildfile: file:///home/aha/devel/nant/sym.build
> Target framework: Mono 2.0 Profile
> Target(s) specified: clean
>
>
> clean:
>
>    [delete] Deleting file /home/aha/devel/nant/foo.so.
>    [delete] Deleting file /home/aha/devel/nant/foo.so.0.
>
> BUILD FAILED
>
> /home/aha/devel/nant/sym.build(11,6):
> Cannot delete file '/home/aha/devel/nant/foo.so.0'.
>     Could not find file "/home/aha/devel/nant/foo.so.0"
>
> Total time: 0 seconds.
>
> Now I know that Windows does not support symbolic links, and from looking
> at the source code the problem is that
> System.IO.FileInfo.Exsits is false for symbolic links. And DeleteTask.cs
> contains the line of code:
>
> if (!deleteInfo.Exists) {
>    return;
> }
>
> Which causes the function to exit before actually deleting the file, I
> didn't follow the trail any farther than that, but I was wondering if anyone
> new if NAnt 0.86 supports the deletion of symbolic links?
>
> I've been thinking about a couple of implementations using Mono, however,
> it requires the use of a Library that is not Standard in the .NET Framework,
> namely Mono.Unix.Native (yes I know it's been deprecated).  Anyway, I am
> just wondering what others have tried.
>
> --
> Aquil H. Abdullah
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>



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