From d37e2355f85c78c017e252596738207a7def6cda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kelson42 <kelson42@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:47:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] + in computeAbsolutePath(), if "root" path is empty, compute
 with the current path

---
 src/common/pathTools.cpp | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/common/pathTools.cpp b/src/common/pathTools.cpp
index dd43a6d7..d9a04a0d 100644
--- a/src/common/pathTools.cpp
+++ b/src/common/pathTools.cpp
@@ -50,7 +50,16 @@ string computeAbsolutePath(const string path, const string relativePath) {
 #else
   string separator = "/";
 #endif
-  string absolutePath = path[path.length() - 1] == separator[0] ? path : path + separator;
+
+  string absolutePath;
+  if (path.empty()) {
+    char *path=NULL;
+    size_t size;
+    path = getcwd(path,size);
+    absolutePath = string(path) + separator;
+  } else {
+    absolutePath = path[path.length() - 1] == separator[0] ? path : path + separator;
+  }
   char *cRelativePath = strdup(relativePath.c_str());
   char *token = strtok(cRelativePath, "/");