From 173f9f7bb0f3939e756c3afea8caf3338c97e51c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bart <bthomee@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 09:06:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore: Removes unnecessary creation of symlink in CMake
 install file (#6009)

---
 .github/scripts/rename/cmake.sh | 4 ++++
 cmake/XrplInstall.cmake         | 7 +------
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/scripts/rename/cmake.sh b/.github/scripts/rename/cmake.sh
index fba65e88ea..43089b476d 100755
--- a/.github/scripts/rename/cmake.sh
+++ b/.github/scripts/rename/cmake.sh
@@ -81,5 +81,9 @@ elif ! grep -q '"rippled"' cmake/XrplCore.cmake; then
   mv cmake.tmp cmake/XrplCore.cmake
 fi
 
+# Remove the symlink that previously pointed from 'ripple' to 'xrpl' but now is
+# no longer needed.
+${SED_COMMAND} -z -i -E 's@install\(CODE.+CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR}/xrpl\)\n"\)@install(CODE "set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH \\"${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH}\\")")@' cmake/XrplInstall.cmake
+
 popd
 echo "Renaming complete."
diff --git a/cmake/XrplInstall.cmake b/cmake/XrplInstall.cmake
index b53b03e1cd..371dcdf216 100644
--- a/cmake/XrplInstall.cmake
+++ b/cmake/XrplInstall.cmake
@@ -37,12 +37,7 @@ install(
   DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR}"
 )
 
-install(CODE "
-  set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH \"${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH}\")
-  include(create_symbolic_link)
-  create_symbolic_link(xrpl \
-    \$ENV{DESTDIR}\${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR}/xrpl)
-")
+install(CODE "set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH \"${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH}\")")
 
 install (EXPORT XrplExports
   FILE XrplTargets.cmake