buildlocal undesirably cleans the installation directory

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Level

CRITICAL

Component

RUNTIME / PYTHON BINDING / C BINDING / MONITOR / TRACING / TESTS / INFRASTRUCTURE

Environment

Building compss from source, environment any

Description

./buildlocal $INSTALL_DIR cleans the install dir which i think is dangerous especially when used as root.
I wanted to install compps into in conda environment assuming compps installation will produce some /lib /bin and optionally /include files but it cleaned up all contents in the directory instead of appending. This can be dangerous when used as root and a user points to something like /usr/local.

Minimal example to reproduce

to reproduce see how contents of directory are replaced

export $INSTALL_DIR=.
./buildlocal $INSTALL_DIR