From d4fe7ad3279c86b47892e942dae1dac6a2e51d85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roberto Rossini <71787608+robomics@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 17:31:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Bugfix

Do not raise an exception when attempting to delete non-existing files.
---
 src/hictk/convert/cool_to_hic.cpp | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/hictk/convert/cool_to_hic.cpp b/src/hictk/convert/cool_to_hic.cpp
index 54172fa7..8c53fe45 100644
--- a/src/hictk/convert/cool_to_hic.cpp
+++ b/src/hictk/convert/cool_to_hic.cpp
@@ -300,7 +300,8 @@ void cool_to_hic(const ConvertConfig& c) {
   const auto weights = tmpdir() / "weights.txt";
 
   if (c.force && std::filesystem::exists(c.path_to_output)) {
-    std::filesystem::remove(c.path_to_output);
+    [[maybe_unused]] std::error_code ec{};
+    std::filesystem::remove(c.path_to_output, ec);
   }
 
   std::unique_ptr<boost::process::child> process{};