Fix absolute symlinks in PHP artifact bundled libs#99
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cp -a preserves symlinks verbatim. On some cflinuxfs4 build hosts, /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so is an absolute symlink pointing to /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0. libbuildpack rejects absolute symlinks during extraction as a security measure, causing PHP staging to fail with: **ERROR** Could not install PHP: cannot link to an absolute path when extracting archives Fix: after all cp -a lib copies in setupTar(), scan lib/ for absolute symlinks and rewrite them to relative (basename only). This is safe because all the referenced targets are copied into the same lib/ dir.
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cp -a preserves symlinks verbatim. On some cflinuxfs4 build hosts, /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so is an absolute symlink pointing to /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0. libbuildpack rejects absolute symlinks during extraction as a security measure, causing PHP staging to fail with:
ERROR Could not install PHP: cannot link to an absolute path when extracting archives
Fix: after all cp -a lib copies in setupTar(), scan lib/ for absolute symlinks and rewrite them to relative (basename only). This is safe because all the referenced targets are copied into the same lib/ dir.
Failing PRs: cloudfoundry/php-buildpack#1256 and cloudfoundry/php-buildpack#1257
This is closely connected with PR cloudfoundry/php-buildpack#1250