Copy tool copy symlink's target

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This issue was originally created at: 2009-04-09 13:42:39.
This issue was reported by: efficks.
efficks said at 2009-04-09 13:42:39

The Copy tool use shutil.copytree to copy a file to a destination.
When copying a symlink, copytree copy the symlink's target by default and not
the symlink.
We need to set a parameter to copy the symlink instead of the target and pass
this option to copytree(..., symlink=True)

gregnoel said at 2009-04-15 20:13:50

Bug party triage. We agree that the default should be changed but there should
be a keyword argument to Copy() to allow the user to select between the two
modes. Francois-Xavier, can you prepare a patch to that effect? It'll need a
test. If you do, please notify us on the dev list and we'll move it up from the
milestone it currently has.

wblevins001 said at 2014-07-12 12:02:50

Accepting

wblevins001 said at 2014-07-27 09:24:19

Pull request accepted.

dirkbaechle said at 2015-05-05 14:18:39

PR merged in
https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/commits/7b4a9d7393cdc9086edec7d9e3948635f4ea8f4
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