Make manifest path absolute without resolving symlinks

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Walz <sebastian.walz@secunet.com>

Author: sivizius

.github/workflows/rust.yml

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ jobs:
             continue-on-error: false
           - # test with the MSRV version
             test-arm: "Minimum Supported Rust Version"
-            rust-version: "1.71.1"
+            rust-version: "1.79"
             continue-on-error: false
           - # test with the current nightly version (allowed to fail)
             test-arm: "Nightly"

Cargo.toml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ edition = "2021"
 homepage = "https://cyclonedx.org/"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
 repository = "https://github.com/CycloneDX/cyclonedx-rust-cargo"
-rust-version = "1.71.1"
+rust-version = "1.79"
 
 # Config for 'dist'
 [workspace.metadata.dist]

cargo-cyclonedx/src/generator.rs

@@ -964,7 +964,7 @@ impl GeneratedSbom {
 /// This must be run **after** `cargo metadata` which will generate the `Cargo.lock` file
 /// and make sure it's up to date.
 fn locate_cargo_lock(manifest_path: &Path) -> Result<PathBuf, std::io::Error> {
-    let manifest_path = manifest_path.canonicalize()?;
+    let manifest_path = std::path::absolute(manifest_path)?;
     let ancestors = manifest_path.as_path().ancestors();
 
     for path in ancestors {

cargo-cyclonedx/src/main.rs

@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ fn setup_logging(args: &Args) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
 
 fn locate_manifest(args: &Args) -> Result<PathBuf, io::Error> {
     if let Some(manifest_path) = &args.manifest_path {
-        let manifest_path = manifest_path.canonicalize()?;
+        let manifest_path = std::path::absolute(manifest_path)?;
         log::info!(
             "Using manually specified Cargo.toml manifest located at: {}",
             manifest_path.to_string_lossy()