Add support for installing from directories which contain symlinks
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 11f24b4..0529da5 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -52,6 +52,25 @@
AC_FUNC_REALLOC
AC_CHECK_FUNCS([strcasecmp strdup strerror strndup])
+# Check for lstat
+
+AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether lstat is available])
+AC_TRY_LINK([
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#if defined(HAVE_UNISTD_H)
+#include <unistd.h>
+#endif
+],[
+struct stat st;
+lstat("/tmp", &st);
+], [have_lstat="yes"], [have_lstat="no"])
+AC_MSG_RESULT([${have_lstat}])
+
+if test "x${have_lstat}" = "xyes" ; then
+ AC_DEFINE([HAVE_LSTAT], 1, [Define if lstat syscall is supported])
+fi
+
AS_COMPILER_FLAGS(GLOBAL_CFLAGS, "-Wall -Wextra -Wmissing-declarations -Wredundant-decls -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wswitch-default -Wno-unused-parameter -Werror -g")
AC_SUBST(GLOBAL_CFLAGS)
diff --git a/src/ideviceinstaller.c b/src/ideviceinstaller.c
index 17f7c17..55f3062 100644
--- a/src/ideviceinstaller.c
+++ b/src/ideviceinstaller.c
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@
#include <limits.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <dirent.h>
+#ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
+#include <unistd.h>
+#endif
#include <libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice.h>
#include <libimobiledevice/lockdown.h>
@@ -537,6 +540,14 @@
strcat(apath, "/");
strcat(apath, ep->d_name);
+#ifdef HAVE_LSTAT
+ if ((lstat(fpath, &st) == 0) && S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) {
+ char *target = (char *)malloc(st.st_size);
+ readlink(fpath, target, st.st_size);
+ afc_make_link(afc, AFC_SYMLINK, target, fpath);
+ free(target);
+ } else
+#endif
if ((stat(fpath, &st) == 0) && S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {
afc_upload_dir(afc, fpath, apath);
} else {
