Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Richard> Is it safe to use the create_symlink function from
> Richard> boost::filesystems? Are there platforms on which we want LyX
> Richard> to run that don't handle symlinks?
>
> Windows?
>
So does this seems sensible?
namespace {
// A little helper for what follows
// Throws fs::filesystem_error
void forceSymlink(string const & target, string const & link)
{
if (fs::exists(link))
fs::remove(link);
#ifdef _WIN32
fs::copy_file(target, link);
#else
fs::create_symlink(target, link);
#endif
}
}
Richard
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