This takes care of a problem when links were specified which didn't actually exist, or

had no / appended .. basically dirname turned into "." which created a directory
apart from the loopback dir.  Fixed in make_link_absolute.

BootRoot/Yard.pm

@@ -1721,11 +1721,18 @@ sub find_file_in_path {
 sub make_link_absolute {
   my($file, $target) = @_;
 
+  my $link;
+
   if ($target =~ m|^/|) {
     $target;			# Target is absolute, just return it
   } else {
-    cleanup_link(dirname($file) . "/$target");
+    $link  =cleanup_link(dirname($file) . "/$target");
   }
+
+  $link =~ s,^\.,,;  # When there is one file dir eq .  --freesource
+
+  return $link;
+
 }