--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/config.tests/unix/makeabs	Mon Jan 11 14:00:40 2010 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+FILE="$1"
+RES="$FILE"
+
+CUT_ARG="-b1"
+if [ `uname -s` = "QNX" ]; then
+    # QNX does not understand "-b1"
+    CUT_ARG="-c1"
+fi
+
+if [ `echo $FILE | cut $CUT_ARG` = "/" ]; then
+    true
+else
+    RES="$PWD/$FILE"
+    test -d "$RES" && RES="$RES/"
+    RES=`echo "$RES" | sed "s,/\(\./\)*,/,g"`
+
+# note: this will only strip 1 /path/../ from RES, i.e. given /a/b/c/../../../, it returns /a/b/../../
+    RES=`echo "$RES" | sed "s,\(/[^/]*/\)\.\./,/,g"` 
+
+    RES=`echo "$RES" | sed "s,//,/,g" | sed "s,/$,,"`
+fi
+echo $RES #return
+