Relative path to the build directory is treated like absolute

When using the command line: python manage.py build report.views.RenderView --build-dir ./build bakery tries to create the top level directory /build and fails because of permissions. fs.errors.PermissionDenied: permission denied mkdir: ./build: No such file or directory

It should instead create it in the current directory because there is a dot in front.

Is this by design?

It is not something that one cannot get around, but when using singularity and some workflow systems (nextflow), using absolute paths may become messy, as you’re working with isolated directories.

[palewire]

@ClaudiuCreanga, would you be interested in developing a patch to solve this problem?

[ClaudiuCreanga]

I would think these:

/directory
/directory/directory

~/
~/directory

./
./directory

../
../directory
../../directory

a symlink directory

Can’t think of anything else.