rm fails to remove symbolic links to directories

["Lynn Wilson" <lynn at swcp dot com>]

Just upgraded to the latest versions moments ago.
I had created a symbolic link to a directory some time ago.

If I try and remove the symlink using Bash I get the following error:

rm: cannot remove directory `xxxxx/': Is a directory

If I then empty the contents of the directory and repeat the 'rm xxxxx' command 
I get the same error.  Trying 'rm -df xxxxx' also failed.

I saw several symlink changes last week that effected how 'ant' (ant.sh) no 
longer worked when $ANT_HOME was a symlink to the real path.  Changing to the 
real path rather than the symlink was a work-around for that problem.

Is there a work-around for not being able to remove symbolic links to directories?

Thanks.
Lynn



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