I’m having issues with a symlink when running tests. One of the tests’ dependencies contains a symlink which pants is unable to read, so whenever I run

./pants test ::

I get:

19:03:04.06 [ERROR] 1 Exception encountered:

  Exception: Failed to read link "<path/to/symlink": Absolute symlink: "path/to/destination"

I’ve made sure that the destination file is not in the .gitignore and also added an exclusion to

pants_ignore

. Is there anything that I’m overlooking?

You can't use symlinks so there's nothing you can do to get around that I believe.

There was a change in the symlink-space a few weeks ago, let me see if I can find it