fix(@angular-devkit/build-angular): use workspace real path when not preserving symlinks

When not preserving symlinks (the default), the workspace root path should be converted
to the real path on the filesystem to ensure that resolution of all other path-based build
options reflects the actual location of the files. This ensures that typescript and esbuild
resolve files in a consistent manner and avoids hard to diagnose errors involving missing
files at build time.

(cherry picked from commit ba8541e)

Author: clydin

packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/builders/application/options.ts

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 
 import { BuilderContext } from '@angular-devkit/architect';
 import type { Plugin } from 'esbuild';
+import { realpathSync } from 'node:fs';
 import { access, constants } from 'node:fs/promises';
 import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
 import path from 'node:path';
@@ -83,7 +84,17 @@ export async function normalizeOptions(
   options: ApplicationBuilderInternalOptions,
   plugins?: Plugin[],
 ) {
-  const workspaceRoot = context.workspaceRoot;
+  // If not explicitly set, default to the Node.js process argument
+  const preserveSymlinks =
+    options.preserveSymlinks ?? process.execArgv.includes('--preserve-symlinks');
+
+  // Setup base paths based on workspace root and project information
+  const workspaceRoot = preserveSymlinks
+    ? context.workspaceRoot
+    : // NOTE: promises.realpath should not be used here since it uses realpath.native which
+      // can cause case conversion and other undesirable behavior on Windows systems.
+      // ref: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/7726
+      realpathSync(context.workspaceRoot);
   const projectMetadata = await context.getProjectMetadata(projectName);
   const projectRoot = normalizeDirectoryPath(
     path.join(workspaceRoot, (projectMetadata.root as string | undefined) ?? ''),
@@ -244,7 +255,6 @@ export async function normalizeOptions(
     serviceWorker,
     poll,
     polyfills,
-    preserveSymlinks,
     statsJson,
     stylePreprocessorOptions,
     subresourceIntegrity,
@@ -275,8 +285,7 @@ export async function normalizeOptions(
     poll,
     progress,
     externalPackages,
-    // If not explicitly set, default to the Node.js process argument
-    preserveSymlinks: preserveSymlinks ?? process.execArgv.includes('--preserve-symlinks'),
+    preserveSymlinks,
     stylePreprocessorOptions,
     subresourceIntegrity,
     serverEntryPoint,