From 03263c85217dd0cfddff73b966cd2d5cd8245d9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fangrui Song <i@maskray.me>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 19:34:11 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] project: allow absolute compilationDatabaseDirectory

Fix #466
---
 src/project.cc | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/project.cc b/src/project.cc
index 25fdb6fa..bbe3f156 100644
--- a/src/project.cc
+++ b/src/project.cc
@@ -363,8 +363,12 @@ void Project::LoadDirectory(const std::string &root, Project::Folder &folder) {
   folder.entries.clear();
   if (g_config->compilationDatabaseCommand.empty()) {
     CDBDir = root;
-    if (g_config->compilationDatabaseDirectory.size())
-      sys::path::append(CDBDir, g_config->compilationDatabaseDirectory);
+    if (g_config->compilationDatabaseDirectory.size()) {
+      if (sys::path::is_absolute(g_config->compilationDatabaseDirectory))
+        CDBDir = g_config->compilationDatabaseDirectory;
+      else
+        sys::path::append(CDBDir, g_config->compilationDatabaseDirectory);
+    }
     sys::path::append(Path, CDBDir, "compile_commands.json");
   } else {
     // If `compilationDatabaseCommand` is specified, execute it to get the