Add additional logging

src/client/pythonEnvironments/common/externalDependencies.ts

@@ -95,18 +95,21 @@ export function arePathsSame(path1: string, path2: string): boolean {
 
 export async function resolveSymbolicLink(absPath: string, stats?: fsapi.Stats, count?: number): Promise<string> {
  stats = stats ?? (await fsapi.lstat(absPath));
- if (count && count > 5) {
- traceError(`Too many symbolic links encountered: ${absPath}, stop resolving.`);
- return absPath;
- }
  if (stats.isSymbolicLink()) {
+ if (count && count > 5) {
+ traceError(`Too many symbolic links encountered: ${absPath}, stop resolving.`);
+ return absPath;
+ }
+ traceVerbose(`Attempt to resolve symbolic link ${absPath}`);
  const link = await fsapi.readlink(absPath);
+ count = count ? count + 1 : 1;
+ traceVerbose(`Resolved symbolic link to ${absPath} -> ${link}`);
  // Result from readlink is not guaranteed to be an absolute path. For eg. on Mac it resolves
  // /usr/local/bin/python3.9 -> ../../../Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/bin/python3.9
  //
  // The resultant path is reported relative to the symlink directory we resolve. Convert that to absolute path.
  const absLinkPath = path.isAbsolute(link) ? link : path.resolve(path.dirname(absPath), link);
- return resolveSymbolicLink(absLinkPath, undefined, count ?? 0 + 1);
+ return resolveSymbolicLink(absLinkPath, undefined, count);
  }
  return absPath;
 }