Error: EEXIST since NativeScript 2.4

[csaggo]

After updating to NativeScript 2.4 i keep getting EEXIST errors like this one:
shell.js: internal error
Error: EEXIST: file already exists, symlink '../rimraf/bin.js' -> '/Users/mcsaki-mbp/ _ PATH TO APP TNS MODULE _ /tns_modules/nativescript-i18n/node_modules/fs-extra/node_modules/.bin/rimraf'
at Error (native)
at Object.fs.symlinkSync (fs.js:1054:18)
at cpdirSyncRecursive (/Users/mcsaki-mbp/.nvm/versions/v6.9.1/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/shelljs/src/cp.js:76:10)
at cpdirSyncRecursive (/Users/mcsaki-mbp/.nvm/versions/v6.9.1/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/shelljs/src/cp.js:73:7)
at cpdirSyncRecursive (/Users/mcsaki-mbp/.nvm/versions/v6.9.1/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/shelljs/src/cp.js:73:7)
at cpdirSyncRecursive (/Users/mcsaki-mbp/.nvm/versions/v6.9.1/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/shelljs/src/cp.js:73:7)
at cpdirSyncRecursive (/Users/mcsaki-mbp/.nvm/versions/v6.9.1/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/shelljs/src/cp.js:73:7)
at /Users/mcsaki-mbp/.nvm/versions/v6.9.1/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/shelljs/src/cp.js:183:9
at Array.forEach (native)
at Object._cp (/Users/mcsaki-mbp/.nvm/versions/v6.9.1/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/shelljs/src/cp.js:157:11)
at Object.cp (/Users/mcsaki-mbp/.nvm/versions/v6.9.1/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/shelljs/src/common.js:186:23)
at TnsModulesCopy.copyDependencyDir (/Users/mcsaki-mbp/.nvm/versions/v6.9.1/lib/node_modules/nativescript/lib/tools/node-modules/node-modules-dest-copy.js:36:21)
at TnsModulesCopy.copyModules (/Users/mcsaki-mbp/.nvm/versions/v6.9.1/lib/node_modules/nativescript/lib/tools/node-modules/node-modules-dest-copy.js:16:18)
at /Users/mcsaki-mbp/.nvm/versions/v6.9.1/lib/node_modules/nativescript/lib/tools/node-modules/node-modules-builder.js:129:32
at Function.settle (/Users/mcsaki-mbp/.nvm/versions/v6.9.1/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/fibers/future.js:249:26)
at FiberFuture.wait (/Users/mcsaki-mbp/.nvm/versions/v6.9.1/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/fibers/future.js:565:10)

it only works the very first time. Solution for now is to delete hooks, platforms and node-modules and just make the livesync or run command for one platform. next time i have to do this again.
not sure if the issue is really with the plugin or ns 2.4 but plugin name fell in my eye.

[rborn]

Thank you, I'll try to have a look.

[thematan]

full solution should come from fixing the nativescript build process,
they copy all js files using shelljs and it fails when copying symlinks
WORKAROUND: delete 'rimraf' link from .bin directory
rm node_modules/nativescript-i18n/node_modules/fs-extra/node_modules/.bin/rimraf

[rborn]

@thematan thanks for finding this 👍