We are currently solving the following issue within our repository. Here is the issue text:
--- BEGIN ISSUE ---
case.build --clean-build will remove the CASEDIR contents if EXEDIR points to the CASEDIR
I'm reporting this from @dmleung. He setup some cases where EXEDIR was set to be the same as CASEDIR (so NOT a bld subdirectory of the CASEDIR).  If he then runs "./case.build --clean-build" it then erases the contents of the CASEDIR. Outside of that it actually functions fine, but if you clean your build it will cause problems. Note, that he did this with older cime versions and it seemed to work OK, but with cime6.0.45 it will remove the case directory contents.

The important thing to note is that this is something you should NOT do! So we can either close this as a WONTFIX as a degenerate case that you shouldn't do. Or a simple thing to do would be to add a simple check that EXEDIR should not be the same as CASEDIR, or there should be an error reported.

--- END ISSUE ---

Below are some code segments, each from a relevant file. One or more of these files may contain bugs.
--- BEGIN FILES ---
Path: `CIME/XML/env_build.py`
Content:
```
1 """
2 Interface to the env_build.xml file.  This class inherits from EnvBase
3 """
4 from CIME.XML.standard_module_setup import *
5 
6 from CIME import utils
7 from CIME.XML.env_base import EnvBase
8 
9 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
10 
11 
12 class EnvBuild(EnvBase):
13     # pylint: disable=unused-argument
14     def __init__(
15         self, case_root=None, infile="env_build.xml", components=None, read_only=False
16     ):
17         """
18         initialize an object interface to file env_build.xml in the case directory
19         """
20         schema = os.path.join(utils.get_schema_path(), "env_entry_id.xsd")
21         EnvBase.__init__(self, case_root, infile, schema=schema, read_only=read_only)
22
```
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Please first localize the bug based on the issue statement, and then generate a patch according to the `git diff` format fenced by three backticks.

Here is an example:

```diff
diff --git a/examples/server_async.py b/examples/server_async.py
--- a/examples/server_async.py
+++ b/examples/server_async.py
@@ -313,4 +313,4 @@
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    asyncio.run(run_async_server("."), debug=True)
+    asyncio.run(run_async_server(), debug=True)
diff --git a/examples/server_sync.py b/examples/server_sync.py
--- a/examples/server_sync.py
+++ b/examples/server_sync.py
@@ -313,5 +313,5 @@
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    server = run_sync_server(".")
+    server = run_sync_server()
     server.shutdown()

```

diff --git a/CIME/XML/env_build.py b/CIME/XML/env_build.py
--- a/CIME/XML/env_build.py
+++ b/CIME/XML/env_build.py
@@ -18,4 +18,19 @@
         initialize an object interface to file env_build.xml in the case directory
         """
         schema = os.path.join(utils.get_schema_path(), "env_entry_id.xsd")
+        self._caseroot = case_root
         EnvBase.__init__(self, case_root, infile, schema=schema, read_only=read_only)
+
+    def set_value(self, vid, value, subgroup=None, ignore_type=False):
+        """
+        Set the value of an entry-id field to value
+        Returns the value or None if not found
+        subgroup is ignored in the general routine and applied in specific methods
+        """
+        # Do not allow any of these to be the same as CASEROOT
+        if vid in ("EXEROOT", "OBJDIR", "LIBROOT"):
+            utils.expect(value != self._caseroot, f"Cannot set {vid} to CASEROOT")
+
+        return super(EnvBuild, self).set_value(
+            vid, value, subgroup=subgroup, ignore_type=ignore_type
+        )

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