The following issue has been SUBMITTED.
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http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=14928
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Reported By: dirk-thomas
Assigned To:
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Project: CMake
Issue ID: 14928
Category: CMake
Reproducibility: always
Severity: minor
Priority: normal
Status: new
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Date Submitted: 2014-05-22 15:01 EDT
Last Modified: 2014-05-22 15:01 EDT
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Summary: cmake -E create_symlink always returns code 0 even
when failing to create symlink
Description:
When invoking the command "cmake -E create_symlink old new" the return code is
always 0 even when the command failed to create the symlink.
Steps to Reproduce:
Invoke "cmake ." with the following CMakeLists.txt file in the same folder to
reproduce:
# create a real file
set(file "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/test")
file(WRITE "${file}" "foo")
if(EXISTS "${file}" AND NOT IS_SYMLINK "${file}")
message(STATUS "OK: it is a file, not a symlink")
else()
message(FATAL_ERROR "ups, this hould not happen")
endif()
# try to create a symlink
execute_process(
COMMAND "${CMAKE_COMMAND}" "-E" "create_symlink" "/tmp/somewhere" "${file}"
RESULT_VARIABLE rc
OUTPUT_VARIABLE output
ERROR_VARIABLE error
)
message(STATUS "RESULT_VARIABLE ${rc}")
message(STATUS "OUTPUT_VARIABLE ${output}")
message(STATUS "ERROR_VARIABLE ${error}")
if(EXISTS "${file}" AND IS_SYMLINK "${file}")
message(STATUS "WEIRD: it is a symlink, not a file, has overwritten the
existing file")
elseif(NOT rc EQUAL 0)
message(STATUS "OK: could not create symlink and returned error code")
else()
message(FATAL_ERROR "ups, this hould not happen, not creating the symlink but
returning code 0 pretending it was successful")
endif()
Additional Information:
I currently manually have to check that neither a symlink nor file is present
before invoking the command and check afterwards that the symlink is present.
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Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
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2014-05-22 15:01 dirk-thomas New Issue
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