mkdir rules
exec ln -s ../bad.yml rules/symlink.yml

! exec pint --no-color lint rules
! stdout .
cmp stderr stderr.txt

-- stderr.txt --
level=INFO msg="Finding all rules to check" paths=["rules"]
level=INFO msg="Checking Prometheus rules" entries=1 workers=10 online=true
Fatal: cannot read file (yaml/parse)
  ---> rules/symlink.yml:1
       ^^^ this is a symlink but target file cannot be evaluated: lstat rules/../bad.yml: no such file or directory

level=INFO msg="Problems found" Fatal=1
level=ERROR msg="Execution completed with error(s)" err="found 1 problem(s) with severity Bug or higher"
