Absolute paths in BFD

[Mark E.]

BTW, can anyone take a look at the patches below anytime soon? It has been 
quite a while since the patches were posted and they are quite neccessary for 
handling DOS-style filenames. 

> A few months ago someone posted a series of patches to handle this very 
> problem.  See:
> 
> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/binutils/1999-q3/msg00584.html
> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/binutils/1999-q3/msg00585.html
> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/binutils/1999-q3/msg00586.html
> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/binutils/1999-q3/msg00587.html
> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/binutils/1999-q3/msg00588.html
> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/binutils/1999-q3/msg00589.html
> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/binutils/1999-q3/msg00590.html
>