fix: avoid following symlinks in `common.rm` #460

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Compute Version & Check for Release	5s
Windows (x86_64) (MSVC)	3m 20s
Linux (x86_64)	1m 50s
Windows (x86_64) (MSYS)	3m 17s
Darwin (macos-13, x86_64-darwin)	2m 25s
Darwin (macos-14, aarch64-darwin)	1m 49s
Darwin (Universal)	28s
Create Release	9s
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