Exception happened when export directory is named 'static'

[metrue]

Bug report

Describe the bug

Could not export output into a directory named static

To Reproduce

Go to your nextjs project, then mkdir static and next build && next export -o static

npm run build

> learn-starter@0.1.0 build /Users/minhuang/projects/giki/nextjs-blog
> next build && next export -o static

info  - Creating an optimized production build  
info  - Compiled successfully
info  - Collecting page data  
info  - Generating static pages (3/3)
info  - Finalizing page optimization  

Page                                                           Size     First Load JS
┌ ○ /                                                          10.4 kB        81.2 kB
├   └ css/66da66fb2c34490d64fa.css                             1.79 kB
├   /_app                                                      0 B            70.9 kB
├ ○ /404                                                       2.75 kB        73.6 kB
└ ○ /posts/first-post                                          1.63 kB        72.5 kB
+ First Load JS shared by all                                  70.9 kB
  ├ chunks/71247caf95475e3ea7f9a0f8a30beb258b23d005.bd1365.js  6.57 kB
  ├ chunks/commons.93a9e8.js                                   3.2 kB
  ├ chunks/fad5b6fe3657428a9611bc5c5609d8f456c75c77.5d8831.js  10.3 kB
  ├ chunks/framework.9ec1f7.js                                 39.9 kB
  ├ chunks/main.6fd8c3.js                                      6.23 kB
  ├ chunks/pages/_app.ca2459.js                                3.92 kB
  ├ chunks/webpack.e06743.js                                   751 B
  └ css/7ef9bd81cf95a32cd30e.css                               1.14 kB

λ  (Server)  server-side renders at runtime (uses getInitialProps or getServerSideProps)
○  (Static)  automatically rendered as static HTML (uses no initial props)
●  (SSG)     automatically generated as static HTML + JSON (uses getStaticProps)
   (ISR)     incremental static regeneration (uses revalidate in getStaticProps)

info  - using build directory: /Users/minhuang/projects/giki/nextjs-blog/build
info  - Copying "static" directory
[Error: ENAMETOOLONG: name too long, mkdir '/Users/minhuang/projects/giki/nextjs-blog/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static'] {
  errno: -63,
  code: 'ENAMETOOLONG',
  syscall: 'mkdir',
  path: '/Users/minhuang/projects/giki/nextjs-blog/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static/static'
}
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! learn-starter@0.1.0 build: `next build && next export -o static`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the learn-starter@0.1.0 build script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/minhuang/.npm/_logs/2020-12-23T00_19_41_678Z-debug.log

Expected behavior

All static files should be generated in /static directory.

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System information

$ uname -a
Darwin FVFXG11WHV2J 19.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 19.6.0: Thu Oct 29 22:56:45 PDT 2020; root:xnu-6153.141.2.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

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[Maxgit3]

https://nextjs.org/docs/basic-features/static-file-serving

I think all static files have to be in a directory named public

[timneutkens]

Feel free to send a PR disallowing -o being static or public.

[balazsorban44]

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