[issue40732] New realpath breaks setuptools_scm

[Jason R. Coombs]

Jason R. Coombs <jaraco at jaraco.com> added the comment:

It seems the underlying reason the behavior fails is the (intended) difference resolving the empty path to a realpath when a symlink points to another volume. The failing routine invokes realpath early (https://github.com/pypa/setuptools_scm/blob/d7c122e14c9eaca96574dec0ea530ad7204965a9/src/setuptools_scm/file_finder.py#L19).

```
path master # pwd
C:\Users\jaraco\code\main\path
path master # py -3.7 -c "import os; print(os.path.realpath(''))"
C:\Users\jaraco\code\main\path
path master # py -3.8 -c "import os; print(os.path.realpath(''))"
\\vmware-host\Shared Folders\home\code\main\path
```

But that doesn't explain why this issue would not have been triggered on non-Windows systems.

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