small opt to absPath

Noticed that it gets the CWD unncessarily when the path is absolute.

I have not benchmarked this, but I guess that the small overhead of
isAbsolute is so tiny compared to the system call that it's worth
it even if most of the time relative paths are passed to absPath.

Utility/Path.hs

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ import Prelude
 
 import Utility.Monad
 import Utility.UserInfo
-import Utility.Directory
+import Utility.SystemDirectory
 import Utility.Split
 import Utility.FileSystemEncoding
 
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ simplifyPath path = dropTrailingPathSeparator $
 		p' = dropTrailingPathSeparator p
 
 {- Makes a path absolute.
+ -
+ - Also simplifies it using simplifyPath.
  -
  - The first parameter is a base directory (ie, the cwd) to use if the path
  - is not already absolute, and should itsef be absolute.
@@ -123,13 +125,20 @@ dirContains a b = a == b
 	norm = normalise . simplifyPath
 
 {- Converts a filename into an absolute path.
+ -
+ - Also simplifies it using simplifyPath.
  -
  - Unlike Directory.canonicalizePath, this does not require the path
  - already exists. -}
 absPath :: FilePath -> IO FilePath
-absPath file = do
+absPath file
-	cwd <- getCurrentDirectory
+	-- Avoid unncessarily getting the current directory when the path
-	return $ absPathFrom cwd file
+	-- is already absolute. absPathFrom uses simplifyPath
+	-- so also used here for consistency.
+	| isAbsolute file = return $ simplifyPath file
+	| otherwise = do
+		cwd <- getCurrentDirectory
+		return $ absPathFrom cwd file
 
 {- Constructs a relative path from the CWD to a file.
  -