Source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/meson/allow-dirs-outside-of-prefix.patch
--- a/mesonbuild/coredata.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
@@ -506,7 +506,6 @@ class CoreData:
             return value
         if option.name.endswith('dir') and value.is_absolute() and \
            option not in BULITIN_DIR_NOPREFIX_OPTIONS:
-            # Value must be a subdir of the prefix
             # commonpath will always return a path in the native format, so we
             # must use pathlib.PurePath to do the same conversion before
             # comparing.
@@ -518,7 +517,7 @@ class CoreData:
             try:
                 value = value.relative_to(prefix)
             except ValueError:
-                raise MesonException(msg.format(option, value, prefix))
+                pass
             if '..' in str(value):
                 raise MesonException(msg.format(option, value, prefix))
         return value.as_posix()
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<tr><td><span title='2021-12-22 10:53:19 +0100'>2021-12-22</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/tests/keys?id=9ebc9ca070a21ba0aeb3f61202a8071bb250ccc8'>tests: Move keys into ./tests/keys/ and add a third ed25519 key.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>The third key will be used in an upcoming commit.

Rename public keys to .pub.

* guix/tests/gnupg.scm (%ed25519-3-public-key-file): New variable.
(%ed25519-3-secret-key-file): New variable.
(%ed25519-2-public-key-file): Renamed from %ed25519bis-public-key-file.
(%ed25519-2-secret-key-file): Renamed from %ed25519bis-secret-key-file.
* tests/keys/ed25519-3.key: New file.
* tests/keys/ed25519-3.sec: New file.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Othacehe &lt;othacehe@gnu.org&gt;
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