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bug: symlink creates wrong reference

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#252 opened on Dec 17, 2025

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Description

The original issue was happening while trying to install:

  • python
  • pip
  • venv

But tracing down, its simple to reproduce:

$ ln -s /bin/true ./tru
$ ./tru 
/bin/sh: ./tru: not found

By checking the symlink its misses the root

$ ls -l ./tru
lrwxrwxrwx    0 root     root             8 Dec 17 07:52 ./tru -> bin/true

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Research direction
Inspect how symlinks are created in the codebase, especially the path handling logic. Look for relative path conversions or missing root slash.
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typescript
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tooling
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shell
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70