[gdal-dev] Symlinks to VRTs

[Luis Ressel]

On Wed, 08 Mar 2017 21:28:34 +0100
Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:

> The relevant piece of code is in
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/trunk/gdal/frmts/vrt/vrtdataset.cpp#L739
> 
> If you look a bit below in
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/trunk/gdal/frmts/vrt/vrtdataset.cpp#L814
> there's an open option ROOT_PATH that could be set to b/ to get the
> behaviour you wish.

Thanks for the hint! Adjusting the ROOT_PATH is an acceptable solution
in my use case.

Interestingly, GDAL used to handle symlinks to VRTs in the way I'd
expected, but this was changed back in 2013 (commit 66b3918df in the
git repository, committed by you).

Regards,
Luis Ressel
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