Configure: make absolutedir() use rel2abs() on Windows too

perl's realpath() seems to be buggy on Windows, so we turn to rel2abs()
there as well.

Fixes #23593

Reviewed-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/24569)

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Configure b/Configure
index c15f5b2fff..73a95a000d 100755
--- a/Configure
+++ b/Configure
@@ -3522,6 +3522,13 @@ sub absolutedir {
         return rel2abs($dir);
     }
 
+    # realpath() on Windows seems to check if the directory actually exists,
+    # which isn't what is wanted here.  All we want to know is if a directory
+    # spec is absolute, not if it exists.
+    if ($^O eq "MSWin32") {
+        return rel2abs($dir);
+    }
+
     # We use realpath() on Unix, since no other will properly clean out
     # a directory spec.
     use Cwd qw/realpath/;