[cla][patch] absolute path given for profile failes on windows

[Rawld Gill]

works OK on *nix, but windows path normalization appears to fail; particularly if there is a drive letter in the path

[Patrick Ruzand]

patch by Patrick Ruzand (IBM, CCLA)

[Patrick Ruzand]

Here is a possible patch. The patch is very simple but review more than welcome... The problem I found is that getAbsolutePath() function (fileUtils.js) does not take into account the Windows filesystem syntax when checking whether it's an absolute path or not. This result in concatanating the base path with the given filename (which is absolute), giving something like: c:/a/path/to/buildscript/c:/a/path/to/the/file.profile

Indeed:

getAbsolutePath= function(src, base) {
    src= cleanupPath(src);
    if (src.charAt(0)!="/") { //////////// <<<<< UNIX-only !!!
        src= catPath(base, src);
    }
    return compactPath(src);
},

Instead, it should check the path using the isAbsolutePath function :

getAbsolutePath= function(src, base) {
	src= cleanupPath(src);
	if (!isAbsolutePath(src)) {
		src= catPath(base, src);
	}
	return compactPath(src);
},

[cjolif]

rcgill, if Patrick's patch is ok with you, can Patrick (or you) commit it in 1.7.2? Or at least in 1.7.3? Thanks.

[Rawld Gill]

In [27887]:

improved path computations for windows; thanks pruzand; refs #14800; !strict

[Rawld Gill]

In [27888]:

backport [27887]; fixes #14800; !strict