From 5d88c45861bd5d1f60baa9967fffb843c4a162d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrei Alexeyev <akari@taisei-project.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 17:18:57 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] msubprojects: do not follow symlinks when purging

Fixes #8891
---
 mesonbuild/msubprojects.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mesonbuild/msubprojects.py b/mesonbuild/msubprojects.py
index 269f0feba..656f9a2c7 100755
--- a/mesonbuild/msubprojects.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/msubprojects.py
@@ -430,7 +430,8 @@ class Runner:
             except FileNotFoundError:
                 pass
 
-        subproject_source_dir = Path(self.repo_dir).resolve()
+        # NOTE: Do not use .resolve() here; the subproject directory may be a symlink
+        subproject_source_dir = Path(self.repo_dir)
 
         # Don't follow symlink. This is covered by the next if statement, but why
         # not be doubly sure.