Delete old symlink before creating new because symlink creation does not overwrite the old one.

10 years ago · 84a31d0b57
parent ef788a31ce
commit 84a31d0b57
1 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/meson_install.py
+++ b/meson_install.py
@ -165,7 +165,12 @@ def install_targets(d):
        printed_symlink_error = False
        for alias in aliases:
            try:
-                os.symlink(fname, os.path.join(outdir, alias))
+                symlinkfilename = os.path.join(outdir, alias)
+                try:
+                    os.unlink(symlinkfilename)
+                except FileNotFoundError:
+                    pass
+                os.symlink(fname, symlinkfilename)
            except NotImplementedError:
                if not printed_symlink_error:
                    print("Symlink creation does not work on this platform.")