Can't delete a symlink using ANT Script

Question

I am trying to delete a symlink using the below line :

<symlink action="delete"  link="/path/of/link/symlink"/>

It throws an error saying:

Could not create tempfile in /directory/where/symlink/points

The /directory/where/symlink/points is supposed to be read-only. Is there a way in which I could just delete the symlink ?

Answer 1

Symlinks pointing to read-only resources may be deleted using the <delete> Ant task.

<target name="delete-symlink">
  <delete file="/path/of/link/symlink" followsymlinks="false"
          removenotfollowedsymlinks="true" />
</target>

From the <delete> Ant task documentation:

removeNotFollowedSymlinks  Whether symbolic links (not the files/directories 
                           they link to) should be removed if they haven't been 
                           followed because followSymlinks was false or the 
                           maximum number of symbolic links was too big. Since 
                           Ant 1.8.0