How to create a configuration that does not depend on the absolute path?

[maBarabas]

I'm trying to use glob to add some files to my output, but it seems to require knowing the absolute path of the project root as an argument to strip_prefix.

error[TUGGER_FILE_RESOURCE]: path cannot be absolute: C:/Users/barabas/Documents/project-name/./binaries/app.bin
       --> .\pyoxidizer.bzl:289:16
        |
    289 |     binaries = glob(["binaries/*"])
        |                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ glob()

How can this error be resolved without hardcoding strip_prefix to C:/Users/barabas/Documents/project-name/ which will only work on my machine.

This is the same issue as #410, which was closed without a real solution.

[alisher-amantay]

Why does the solution given in #410 to use glob(["binaries/*"], strip_prefix=CWD) not work for you? The behavior could be argued to be intended as how would a glob know where to chop off the paths otherwise.

[maBarabas]

I had assumed they meant the actual current working directory rather than the magic CWD constant. This should work.