From 0189ddc1139c4ef5e2f7f8c22c4f0196c6884300 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neil Schemenauer <nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:21:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Distutils apparently requires an absolute path so provide
 one.

---
 setup.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 76b0af069f1..13d0687f67e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
         if not srcdir:
             # Maybe running on Windows but not using CYGWIN?
             raise ValueError("No source directory; cannot proceed.")
-        srcdir = os.path.normpath(srcdir)
+        srcdir = os.path.abspath(srcdir)
         moddirlist = [os.path.join(srcdir, 'Modules')]
 
         # Platform-dependent module source and include directories