Implemented hack to make nightlies work

Implemented the same mechanism of !113 (merged) for the nightlies.

It works on my instance.

Let's see if it works in the ci. If so, I'll do another MR to clean up this mess.

bob/devtools/scripts/build.py

@@ -177,6 +177,31 @@ def build(
         group,
     )
 
+    #### HACK to avoid ripgrep ignoring bin/ directories in our checkouts
+     project_dir = os.path.dirname(recipe_dir[0])
+     import shutil
+     if os.path.exists(os.path.join(project_dir, '.gitignore')):
+         logger.warn('Removing ".gitignore" to overcome issues with ripgrep')
+         logger.warn('See https://gitlab.idiap.ch/bob/bob.devtools/merge_requests/112')
+         os.unlink(os.path.join(project_dir, '.gitignore'))
+     #### END OF HACK
+
+     #### HACK that avoids this issue: https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/3767
+    if os.path.exists(os.path.join(project_dir,'LICENSE')) and os.path.exists(recipe_dir[0]):
+        logger.warn('Creating symlink in `./conda` to avoid issue with conda build (https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/3767)')
+        logger.warn('Replacing ../LICENSE to LICENSE (https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/3767)')
+        pwd = project_dir
+        
+        # WE NEED TO COPY. FOR SOME REASON SYMLINK DOESN'T WORK IN THIS CASE
+        shutil.copyfile(f"{pwd}/LICENSE", f"{pwd}/conda/LICENSE")
+        if(os.path.exists(os.path.join(project_dir,'COPYING'))):
+            shutil.copyfile(f"{pwd}/COPYING", f"{pwd}/conda/COPYING")
+        recipe = open(os.path.join(recipe_dir[0],"meta.yaml")).readlines()
+        recipe = [l.replace("../COPYING","COPYING").replace("../LICENSE","LICENSE") for l in recipe]
+        open(os.path.join(recipe_dir[0],"meta.yaml"), "wt").write(''.join(recipe))
+
+    #### END OF HACK
+
     # get potential channel upload and other auxiliary channels
     channels = get_channels(
         public=(not private),