From c1596926ea11ee7ea2144ce22e408ca1001193b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aurindam Jana <ajana@bettdhcp167165.europe.nokia.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:00:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] FileUtils: Remove symbolic links when removing a directory

Task-number: QTCREATORBUG-6898

Change-Id: Idef8eee191d6d5b8f66046a4e6c6891a54262d2e
Reviewed-by: Daniel Molkentin <daniel.molkentin@nokia.com>
---
 src/libs/utils/fileutils.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/libs/utils/fileutils.cpp b/src/libs/utils/fileutils.cpp
index 3c201d31c7a..cb62ca41727 100644
--- a/src/libs/utils/fileutils.cpp
+++ b/src/libs/utils/fileutils.cpp
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ namespace Utils {
 bool FileUtils::removeRecursively(const QString &filePath, QString *error)
 {
     QFileInfo fileInfo(filePath);
-    if (!fileInfo.exists())
+    if (!fileInfo.exists() && !fileInfo.isSymLink())
         return true;
     QFile::setPermissions(filePath, fileInfo.permissions() | QFile::WriteUser);
     if (fileInfo.isDir()) {