put a try around the symlink in mkcachedir

ref issue 12166 (cherry picked from commit 6b979b6) from PR #14026
JuliaLang · Nov 18, 2015 · d332bd4 · d332bd4
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diff --git a/base/pkg/cache.jl b/base/pkg/cache.jl
@@ -22,8 +22,10 @@ function mkcachedir()
         if !isdir(rootcache)
             mkdir(rootcache)
         end
-        symlink(rootcache, cache)
-        return
+        try
+            symlink(rootcache, cache)
+            return
+        end
     end
     mkdir(cache)
 end