msubprojects: do not follow symlinks when purging

Fixes #8891
3 years ago · 5d88c45861
parent 7eb4c23156
commit 5d88c45861
1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
--- 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.