[cmake-developers] [CMake 0014046]: no support for build directory being a symbolic link

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=14046 
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Reported By:                Heiko Nardmann
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   14046
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2013-03-28 05:25 EDT
Last Modified:              2013-03-28 05:25 EDT
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Summary:                    no support for build directory being a symbolic link
Description: 
When setting up a symbolic link (no shortcut!!!) to the build directory and
running CMake I get the following error:

CMake Error: The source directory
"D:/test_SqlTreeModel_BasedOnRecursiveGroupAndEntityWithEntityInstances-build"
is a file, not a directory.
Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.

I have setup a symbolic link to the real build directory to circumvent to
problem with the 260 character path limit with Windows.

Steps to Reproduce: 
1) Setup a project folder (e.g. within QtCreator).
2) Choose 'Run CMake' (from menu) and specify the real build folder parallel to
the project folder.
3) Create a symbolic link to this real build folder (e.g. by using
'HardLinkShellExt'; see
http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html).
4) Choose 'Run CMake' again and specify the symbolic link.
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Issue History 
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2013-03-28 05:25 Heiko Nardmann New Issue                                    
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