I’m trying to be clever with symlinks, and run int...
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curved-television-6568
02/06/2022, 11:00 AMI’m trying to be clever with symlinks, and run into an error message I don’t fully understand (yet)..
curved-television-6568
02/06/2022, 11:01 AMI got:
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Error expanding output globs: Failed to read link "/private/tmp/process-executionCEiV14/.docker_tools/sh": Absolute symlink: "/private/tmp/process-executionCEiV14/.docker_tools/sh"h
happy-kitchen-89482
02/06/2022, 4:34 PMIf I remember correctly, the engine doesn't like symlink cleverness...
happy-kitchen-89482
02/06/2022, 4:38 PMWe don't allow absolute symlinks (https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/blob/57a9e3a434860e6ff8b873ae72f42fdee9250c81/src/rust/engine/fs/src/lib.rs#L566) by design
happy-kitchen-89482
02/06/2022, 4:41 PMI think this is so that symlinks can't escape the sandbox, which would defeat repeatability/hermeticity/remotability
happy-kitchen-89482
02/06/2022, 4:41 PMBut I am not the expert
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curved-television-6568
02/06/2022, 4:55 PMAh, ok. That makes sense. Hmm… will have to be even more clever, or look into if there is some other way to setup a temp directory with symlinks.
curved-television-6568
02/06/2022, 4:56 PMWhat I’m trying to do is setup a bin dir that I can include in a
ProcessPATHh
happy-kitchen-89482
02/06/2022, 6:03 PMWhat's an example of a binary?
happy-kitchen-89482
02/06/2022, 6:03 PMSystem utilities?