Caffe in Google Colab ln: failed to create symbolic link : Operation not supported

[Hasan Bank]

Hi,

I try to run the code which is located at https://github.com/kevinlin311tw/cvpr16-deepbit for a while. However, I have a problem with a part of the makefile code.

That is:

$(BUILD_DIR)/.linked:

@ mkdir -p $(BUILD_DIR)

@ $(RM) $(OTHER_BUILD_DIR)/.linked

@ $(RM) -r $(BUILD_DIR_LINK)

@ ln -s $(BUILD_DIR) $(BUILD_DIR_LINK)

@ touch $@

I cloned this repo to google drive but this code block does not work properly in Google Colab because google drive does not allow the symbolic link.

When "make all" commands run, 

ln: failed to create symbolic link 'build': Operation not supported

Makefile:500: recipe for target '.build_release/.linked' failed

this error returns.

What should I do?

Best regards