--- prophet-gpl/src/Utils.cpp	2016-11-30 16:19:08.000000000 -0700
+++ prophet-gpl-64/src/Utils.cpp	2021-02-09 10:00:55.812957291 -0700
@@ -88,6 +88,10 @@
     char tmps[1000];
     build_args.clear();
     int cnt = fscanf(in, "%s", tmps);
+    if (cnt <= 0) {
+        std::cerr << "parseArgFile( " << arg_file.c_str() << ","
+                  << tmps << "," << "build_args);" << std::endl;
+    }
     assert( cnt > 0);
     build_dir = tmps;
     // We need to put extra include directory arguments in to avoid compile error
@@ -156,6 +160,7 @@
     return ret;
 }
 
+
 bool exist_directory(const std::string &dir) {
     struct stat sb;
     if ((stat(dir.c_str(), &sb) == 0) && S_ISDIR(sb.st_mode))
@@ -173,16 +178,32 @@
 }
 
 std::string getFullPath(const std::string &path) {
-    char tmp[PATH_MAX];
-    char * ret = realpath(path.c_str(), tmp);
-    assert( ret != 0);
-    return std::string(tmp);
+   char tmp[PATH_MAX];
+   struct stat sb;
+   int x = lstat(path.c_str(),&sb);
+   if ((x==0) && (S_ISLNK(sb.st_mode))){
+       std::cerr << "path '"<<path.c_str()<<"' is a link" << std::endl;
+       ssize_t nB,bufsize;
+       bufsize=sb.st_size;
+       if (sb.st_size == 0){ 
+           bufsize=PATH_MAX;
+       }
+       nB = readlink(path.c_str(),tmp,bufsize);
+       assert(nB != -1);
+       if (nB == bufsize) { std::cerr << "Readlink buffer may have been truncated. value =" << tmp << std::endl; }
+   }
+   else {
+       char * ret = realpath(path.c_str(), tmp);
+       assert( (tmp != 0 || ret != 0) && std::cerr << std::endl << "getFullPath: " << path.c_str() << " [" << tmp << "]" << std::endl );
+   }
+   return std::string(tmp);
 }
 
 int execute_with_timeout(const std::string &cmd, unsigned long timeout) {
     std::ostringstream sout;
     sout << "timeout " << timeout <<  "s " << cmd;
     std::string s = sout.str();
+    std::cerr << "Building command: " << s.c_str() << std::endl;
     int ret = system(s.c_str());
     return ret;
 }