In contradiction to what you claim, that code doesn't run. I'm going to assume you imported abs_path refers to abs_path from Cwd.

abs_path takes a path relative to the current work directory and converts it into an absolute path.

However, readlink returns a path that should be treated as relative to the directory in which the symbolic link is found.

You could use a means of finding the absolute path that allows you to specify the base directory, but there's a simpler solution here:

my $absolutepath = abs_path($lpath);
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