From f123367254c4737981af3e0641e5a4f388d0567d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:00:50 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] file: Do not remove symlinked directories recursively
 (#10538)

If a symlink points at a directory the symlink should be removed but not
the content of the directory.
---
 Source/cmFileCommand.cxx | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Source/cmFileCommand.cxx b/Source/cmFileCommand.cxx
index 0cdbb82d7..018ce7ecd 100644
--- a/Source/cmFileCommand.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmFileCommand.cxx
@@ -2409,7 +2409,8 @@ bool cmFileCommand::HandleRemove(std::vector<std::string> const& args,
       fileName += "/" + *i;
       }
 
-    if(cmSystemTools::FileIsDirectory(fileName.c_str()) && recurse)
+    if(cmSystemTools::FileIsDirectory(fileName.c_str()) &&
+       !cmSystemTools::FileIsSymlink(fileName.c_str()) && recurse)
       {
       cmSystemTools::RemoveADirectory(fileName.c_str());
       }