turn symlinks into regular files #191

Job	Run time
get_version	4s
build-and-run-tests-ubuntu	33m 20s
build-and-run-tests-macos (macos-13)	56m 0s
build-and-run-tests-windows	58m 51s
build-and-run-tests-macos (macos-14)	38m 24s
	3h 6m 39s

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