On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:40:34AM +0200, Sebastian Rose wrote:
> Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@no8wireless.co.nz> writes:
> > Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose <at> gmx.de> writes:
> >> It would be a bug.
> >> 
> >> But I cannot reproduce it (current Org mode from git, emacs24).
> >
> > I just figured out why: I store all my images in ~/images/ and just
> > have symbolic links to them in my Org website directory.
> >
> > Can you reproduce it now that you have this piece of information?
> 
> 
> Ah, OK.  That might be because of some call to 
> 
>   (file-truename file...)
> 
> or similar.  `file-truename' removes symbolic links in filenames.
> 
> Functions like this are called to make sure, the file is published only
> if needed (i.e. the file has changed since last export).
> 
> I'm not sure currently if it's clever to remove such calls (see
> lisp/org-publish.el and search `file-truename').

What if `file-truename' was used only to get the path of the actual
file to copy, but the (relative) path of the link is used as the
destination?

--Aidan