diff --git a/configure/tools/fullPathName.pl b/configure/tools/fullPathName.pl
index e2585a22b..a194c6f69 100755
--- a/configure/tools/fullPathName.pl
+++ b/configure/tools/fullPathName.pl
@@ -1,10 +1,19 @@
 eval 'exec perl -S -w  $0 ${1+"$@"}'  # -*- Mode: perl -*-
         if 0; 
 
+#
+# Determine fullpathname if argument starts with "."
+# else return argument value.
+#
+
 use Cwd 'abs_path';
 my $dir;
-if( $ARGV[0] )
-{
-  $dir = abs_path("$ARGV[0]");
-  print "$dir\n";
+if( $ARGV[0] ) {
+  if( $ARGV[0] =~ /^\./ )
+  {
+    $dir = abs_path("$ARGV[0]");
+    print "$dir\n";
+  } else  {
+    print "$ARGV[0]\n";
+  }
 }