Regression in commit 0af126fec7. We added
support for some "test cases/" stuff that actually relies on test files
being a symlink, but when testing the image builder, we copied the meson
repository contents into the docker container without telling python
that it is in fact super important to copy symlinks as symlinks.
As a result, the tests themselves ran fine when merging, but caused the
image builder to thereafter fail.
D lang compilers have an option -release (or similar) which turns off
asserts, contracts, and other runtime type checking. This patch wires
that up to the b_ndebug flag.
Fixes#7082