I was running rewatch build on my project for the first time and it failed, confusingly claiming Could not read folder: src..., despite src clearly existing.
Upon some investigation the error was actually that I had a broken symlink (pointing to a non-existent file) in my project directory tree, which caused the like let metadata = fs::metadata(&entry_path_buf)?; to return an error, tanking the whole process.
The fix I have here checks specifically for a broken symlink, and if found, reports it and skips (continues) the loop. With this change, my project compiled without errors.
I also added the text of the error to the println!s reporting errors in a few places, with the idea that that might help make things clearer to a user. It's not part of the core fix here, so feel free to remove if undesirable.
I was running
rewatch buildon my project for the first time and it failed, confusingly claimingCould not read folder: src..., despitesrcclearly existing.Upon some investigation the error was actually that I had a broken symlink (pointing to a non-existent file) in my project directory tree, which caused the like
let metadata = fs::metadata(&entry_path_buf)?;to return an error, tanking the whole process.The fix I have here checks specifically for a broken symlink, and if found, reports it and skips (
continues) the loop. With this change, my project compiled without errors.I also added the text of the error to the
println!s reporting errors in a few places, with the idea that that might help make things clearer to a user. It's not part of the core fix here, so feel free to remove if undesirable.