From 1b596b325a309910a02d08b91aba6e592cd010d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roman Telezhynskyi <kroluku@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 16:46:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] On Unix systems create symbolic links instead of copying
 files.

--HG--
branch : develop
---
 common.pri | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/common.pri b/common.pri
index 4eb46c5b7..7ae533b01 100644
--- a/common.pri
+++ b/common.pri
@@ -69,20 +69,24 @@ defineTest(copyToDestdir) {
     message("----------------------------------------------begin------------------------------------------------")
     message("Copy to" $$DDIR "after link")
     for(FILE, files) {
-
-        !exists($$DDIR/$$basename(FILE)) {
-            # Replace slashes in paths with backslashes for Windows
-            win32{
-                FILE ~= s,/,\\,g
-                DDIR ~= s,/,\\,g
-            }
-            QMAKE_POST_LINK += $$VCOPY $$quote($$FILE) $$quote($$DDIR) $$escape_expand(\\n\\t)
-            message("Command:" $$VCOPY $$quote($$FILE) $$quote($$DDIR))
+        unix{
+            QMAKE_POST_LINK += ln -s -f $$quote($$FILE) $$quote($$DDIR/$$basename(FILE)) $$escape_expand(\\n\\t)
+            message("Command:" ln -s -f $$quote($$FILE) $$quote($$DDIR/$$basename(FILE)))
         } else {
-            message("File:" $$DDIR/$$basename(FILE) "already exist")
-        }
+            !exists($$DDIR/$$basename(FILE)) {
+                # Replace slashes in paths with backslashes for Windows
+                win32{
+                    FILE ~= s,/,\\,g
+                    DDIR ~= s,/,\\,g
+                }
+                QMAKE_POST_LINK += $$VCOPY $$quote($$FILE) $$quote($$DDIR) $$escape_expand(\\n\\t)
+                message("Command:" $$VCOPY $$quote($$FILE) $$quote($$DDIR))
+            } else {
+                message("File:" $$DDIR/$$basename(FILE) "already exist")
+            }
 
-        QMAKE_CLEAN += $$DDIR/$$basename(FILE)
+            QMAKE_CLEAN += $$DDIR/$$basename(FILE)
+        }
     }
 
     export(QMAKE_POST_LINK)
@@ -99,15 +103,19 @@ defineTest(forceCopyToDestdir) {
     message("----------------------------------------------begin------------------------------------------------")
     message("Copy to" $$DDIR "after link")
     for(FILE, files) {
-
-        # Replace slashes in paths with backslashes for Windows
-        win32{
-            FILE ~= s,/,\\,g
-            DDIR ~= s,/,\\,g
+        unix{
+            QMAKE_POST_LINK += ln -s -f $$quote($$FILE) $$quote($$DDIR/$$basename(FILE)) $$escape_expand(\\n\\t)
+            message("Command:" ln -s -f $$quote($$FILE) $$quote($$DDIR/$$basename(FILE)))
+        } else {
+            # Replace slashes in paths with backslashes for Windows
+            win32{
+                FILE ~= s,/,\\,g
+                DDIR ~= s,/,\\,g
+            }
+            QMAKE_POST_LINK += $$VCOPY $$quote($$FILE) $$quote($$DDIR) $$escape_expand(\\n\\t)
+            message("Command:" $$VCOPY $$quote($$FILE) $$quote($$DDIR))
+            QMAKE_CLEAN += $$DDIR/$$basename(FILE)
         }
-        QMAKE_POST_LINK += $$VCOPY $$quote($$FILE) $$quote($$DDIR) $$escape_expand(\\n\\t)
-        message("Command:" $$VCOPY $$quote($$FILE) $$quote($$DDIR))
-        QMAKE_CLEAN += $$DDIR/$$basename(FILE)
     }
 
     export(QMAKE_POST_LINK)