From 25fea2ba5d7c79e44583f6ad8ea4b68fd0b4f689 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 07:20:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] <project basedir=""> didn't work for absolute filenames.
 Reported by:	Gardner, David <david_gardner@mentorg.com>

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@267975 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/ProjectHelper.java | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/ProjectHelper.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/ProjectHelper.java
index 87f441a74..94ddd3b67 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/ProjectHelper.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/ProjectHelper.java
@@ -237,7 +237,12 @@ public class ProjectHelper {
                 if (baseDir == null) {
                     project.setBasedir((new File(buildFileParent)).getAbsolutePath());
                 } else {
-                    project.setBasedir((new File(buildFileParent, baseDir)).getAbsolutePath());
+                    // check whether the user has specified an absolute path
+                    if ((new File(baseDir)).isAbsolute()) {
+                        project.setBasedir(baseDir);
+                    } else {
+                        project.setBasedir((new File(buildFileParent, baseDir)).getAbsolutePath());
+                    }
                 }
             }