std.Build: resolved generated paths are cwd-relative #23958
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The doc comment here agreed with the implementation, but not with any
Step
which populates aGeneratedFile
, where they are treated as cwd-relative. This is the obvious correct choice, because these paths usually come from joining onto a cache root, and those are cwd-relative if not absolute.This was a pre-existing bug, but #23836 caused it to trigger more often, because the compiler now commonly passes the local cache directory to the build runner process as a relative path where it was previously an absolute path.
Resolves: #23954