Teach configure_file to handle relative paths

The configure_file() command now converts relative output paths to full
paths using the current binary directory.  Input relative paths were
already converted using the current source directory, but this behavior
was not previously documented.

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/Source/cmConfigureFileCommand.cxx b/Source/cmConfigureFileCommand.cxx
index 8a03778..051fe28 100644
--- a/Source/cmConfigureFileCommand.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmConfigureFileCommand.cxx
@@ -27,8 +27,23 @@ bool cmConfigureFileCommand
     this->SetError("called with incorrect number of arguments, expected 2");
     return false;
     }
-  this->InputFile = args[0];
-  this->OutputFile = args[1];
+
+  const char* inFile = args[0].c_str();
+  if(!cmSystemTools::FileIsFullPath(inFile))
+    {
+    this->InputFile = this->Makefile->GetCurrentDirectory();
+    this->InputFile += "/";
+    }
+  this->InputFile += inFile;
+
+  const char* outFile = args[1].c_str();
+  if(!cmSystemTools::FileIsFullPath(outFile))
+    {
+    this->OutputFile = this->Makefile->GetCurrentOutputDirectory();
+    this->OutputFile += "/";
+    }
+  this->OutputFile += outFile;
+
   if ( !this->Makefile->CanIWriteThisFile(this->OutputFile.c_str()) )
     {
     std::string e = "attempted to configure a file: " + this->OutputFile
@@ -89,14 +104,8 @@ void cmConfigureFileCommand::FinalPass()
 
 int cmConfigureFileCommand::ConfigureFile()
 {
-  std::string inFile = this->InputFile;
-  if (!cmSystemTools::FileIsFullPath(inFile.c_str()))
-    {
-    inFile = this->Makefile->GetStartDirectory();
-    inFile += "/";
-    inFile += this->InputFile;
-    }
-  return this->Makefile->ConfigureFile(inFile.c_str(),
+  return this->Makefile->ConfigureFile(
+    this->InputFile.c_str(),
     this->OutputFile.c_str(),
     this->CopyOnly,
     this->AtOnly,