Symlink in /static fails build

[azhang]

Description

A javascript library I'm using needs to be available as static files, and is also required in the code. Hence, I put it in src/components/Something/charting_library and symlinked it to static.
This symlink gets served properly in development mode, but cannot be built.

Steps to reproduce

ln -s src/components/Something/charting_library static/
yarn build

Expected result

no errors

Actual result

ERROR 

ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat '/Users/allie/src/blep/website/static/charting_library'



 Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat '/Users/allie/src/blep/website/static/charting_library'
 
 - polyfills.js:307 Object.statSync
   [website]/[graceful-fs]/polyfills.js:307:34
 
 - stat.js:58 getStatsSync
   [website]/[fs-extra]/lib/util/stat.js:58:18
 
 - stat.js:90 Object.checkPathsSync
   [website]/[fs-extra]/lib/util/stat.js:90:33
 
 - copy-sync.js:119 copyDirItem
   [website]/[fs-extra]/lib/copy-sync/copy-sync.js:119:29
 
 - copy-sync.js:113 
   [website]/[fs-extra]/lib/copy-sync/copy-sync.js:113:39
 
 - Array.forEach
 
 - copy-sync.js:113 copyDir
   [website]/[fs-extra]/lib/copy-sync/copy-sync.js:113:23
 
 - copy-sync.js:103 onDir
   [website]/[fs-extra]/lib/copy-sync/copy-sync.js:103:10
 
 - copy-sync.js:45 getStats
   [website]/[fs-extra]/lib/copy-sync/copy-sync.js:45:37
 
 - copy-sync.js:38 startCopy
   [website]/[fs-extra]/lib/copy-sync/copy-sync.js:38:10
 
 - copy-sync.js:33 handleFilterAndCopy
   [website]/[fs-extra]/lib/copy-sync/copy-sync.js:33:10
 
 - copy-sync.js:26 Object.copySync
   [website]/[fs-extra]/lib/copy-sync/copy-sync.js:26:10
 
 - get-static-dir.js:38 
   [website]/[gatsby]/dist/utils/get-static-dir.js:38:35
 
 - Array.map
 
 - get-static-dir.js:38 copyStaticDirs
   [website]/[gatsby]/dist/utils/get-static-dir.js:38:4
 

not finished run queries - 0.053s
error Command failed with exit code 1.

Environment

System:
  OS: macOS 10.15.4
  CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4980HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz
  Shell: 5.7.1 - /bin/zsh
Binaries:
  Node: 12.2.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.2.0/bin/node
  Yarn: 1.22.4 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
  npm: 6.9.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.2.0/bin/npm
Languages:
  Python: 2.7.16 - /usr/bin/python
Browsers:
  Chrome: 83.0.4103.61
  Firefox: 66.0.3
  Safari: 13.1
npmPackages:
  gatsby: ^2.15.15 => 2.20.14
  gatsby-paginate: ^1.1.1 => 1.1.1
  gatsby-plugin-feed: ^2.3.12 => 2.4.1
  gatsby-plugin-google-tagmanager: ^2.1.9 => 2.2.1
  gatsby-plugin-manifest: ^2.2.16 => 2.3.3
  gatsby-plugin-netlify-cms: ^4.1.15 => 4.2.2
  gatsby-plugin-nprogress: ^2.1.6 => 2.2.1
  gatsby-plugin-offline: ^3.0.6 => 3.1.2
  gatsby-plugin-postcss: ^2.2.1 => 2.2.1
  gatsby-plugin-prefetch-google-fonts: ^1.4.3 => 1.4.3
  gatsby-plugin-react-helmet: ^3.1.7 => 3.2.1
  gatsby-plugin-sharp: ^2.2.22 => 2.5.4
  gatsby-plugin-sitemap: ^2.2.12 => 2.3.1
  gatsby-plugin-svgr: ^2.0.2 => 2.0.2
  gatsby-remark-copy-linked-files: ^2.1.19 => 2.2.1
  gatsby-remark-images: ^3.1.22 => 3.2.2
  gatsby-remark-prismjs: ^3.3.13 => 3.4.1
  gatsby-remark-relative-images: ^0.2.3 => 0.2.3
  gatsby-source-filesystem: ^2.1.22 => 2.2.2
  gatsby-transformer-remark: ^2.6.22 => 2.7.1
  gatsby-transformer-sharp: ^2.2.14 => 2.4.4

[danabrit]

Hi @azhang !

Sorry to hear you're running into an issue. To help us best begin debugging the underlying cause, it is incredibly helpful if you're able to create a minimal reproduction. This is a simplified example of the issue that makes it clear and obvious what the issue is and how we can begin to debug it.

If you're up for it, we'd very much appreciate if you could provide a minimal reproduction and we'll be able to take another look.

Thanks for using Gatsby! 💜

[LekoArts]

Hi!

Since we didn't receive an answer for 7 days or more about the ask of a reproduction I'm going to close this now, as we can't do much to help without a reproduction. If you are able to create a minimal reproduction for this then please do answer here or reopen the issue. Thanks!

[azhang]

@danabrit sorry for the slow response, it seems like it was fixed in #25894 :D

[MymmiJ]

I still get the issue in this PR on both build and develop in Gatsby 4.10.3, has the change been reverted?