
The builder has this convoluted `while` loop which just replicates `readlink -e`. I'm sure there was a reason at one point, because the loop has been there since time immemorial. It kept getting copied around, I suspect because nobody bothered to understand what it actually did. Incidentally, this fixes #17513, but I have no idea why.
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