Index: lib/Jifty/I18N.pm
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--- lib/Jifty/I18N.pm	(revision 2915)
+++ lib/Jifty/I18N.pm	(working copy)
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 use Email::MIME::ContentType;
 use Encode::Guess qw(iso-8859-1);
 use File::ShareDir ':ALL';
+use Jifty::Util;
 
 =head1 NAME
 
@@ -38,8 +39,12 @@
     bless $self, $class;
 
     my @import = (
-        'Gettext',Jifty->config->framework('L10N')->{'PoDir'}. '/*.po',
-        'Gettext',Jifty->config->framework('L10N')->{'DefaultPoDir'}. '/*.po'
+        'Gettext', Jifty::Util->absolute_path( 
+				Jifty->config->framework('L10N')->{'PoDir'}. '/*.po'
+			),
+        'Gettext', Jifty::Util->absolute_path(
+				Jifty->config->framework('L10N')->{'DefaultPoDir'}. '/*.po'
+			)
         );
 
     foreach my $plugin (Jifty->plugins) {
@@ -47,7 +52,7 @@
         my $dir = eval { module_dir(ref($plugin)); };
         next unless $dir;
         push @import, 'Gettext';
-        push @import, $dir . '/po/*.po';
+        push @import, Jifty::Util->absolute_path( $dir . '/po/*.po' );
     };
 
     Locale::Maketext::Lexicon->import(
@@ -118,8 +123,12 @@
     my $modified = join(
         ',',
         sort map { $_ => -M $_ } map { glob("$_/*.po") } (
-            Jifty->config->framework('L10N')->{'PoDir'},
-            Jifty->config->framework('L10N')->{'DefaultPoDir'}
+            Jifty::Util->absolute_path( 
+				Jifty->config->framework('L10N')->{'PoDir'} 
+			),
+            Jifty::Util->absolute_path( 
+				Jifty->config->framework('L10N')->{'DefaultPoDir'}
+			)
         )
     );
     if ($modified ne $last_modified) {