[gdal-dev] Symlinks to VRTs

[Luis Ressel]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 10:05:13 -0800
Kurt Schwehr <schwehr at gmail.com> wrote:

> You can also disable readlink to fix some issues.  e.g. in a content
> addressable storage (CAS) filesystem, every file is typically in a
> separate directory, so you don't want links dereferenced.

Yes, that's exactly my setup (I'm using git-annex for file
archival and synchronization).

> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/trunk/gdal/port/cpl_config.h.in#L151

Thanks, that's a neat idea! Disabling HAVE_READLINK will break some
functionality in gcore/gdalopeninfo.cpp, but none that I care about.

Regards,
Luis Ressel
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