From c0e2cb29195c9d84781609689697a26892ea943c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz <gradha@imap.cc>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 13:33:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Allows passing absolute paths for output. Refs #738.

Previous to this the project base dir was added always, preventing user
specified absolute paths to work.
---
 compiler/extccomp.nim | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/compiler/extccomp.nim b/compiler/extccomp.nim
index fe1bea3fff..d3b3cee757 100644
--- a/compiler/extccomp.nim
+++ b/compiler/extccomp.nim
@@ -616,7 +616,8 @@ proc CallCCompiler*(projectfile: string) =
       if options.outFile.len > 0: 
         exefile = options.outFile
       if not noAbsolutePaths():
-        exefile = joinPath(splitFile(projectFile).dir, exefile)
+        if not exeFile.isAbsolute():
+          exefile = joinPath(splitFile(projectFile).dir, exefile)
       exefile = quoteShell(exefile)
       let linkOptions = getLinkOptions()
       linkCmd = quoteShell(linkCmd % ["builddll", builddll,