What's with the symlinks?

[Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>]

Everywhere I go while assembling my OE build tree, I see admonishments not
to use a path that has symlinks in it.  For such a major problem, the only
real information on the actual problem is a fairly cryptic entry in the FAQ,
about a failure to build libtool-native.

Being an intensely curious kind of person, and not enjoying arbitrary
limits, I'm very interested to know what the *real* reason behind being so
strongly against the much-maligned symlink.  Can anyone enlighten me?

- Matt

-- 
English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow
words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways
to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
	-- James D. Nicoll, resident of rec.arts.sf.written