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bug#17641: 24.3.91; (locate-dominating-file "." Makefile) returns nil.

From: Glenn Morris
Subject: bug#17641: 24.3.91; (locate-dominating-file "." Makefile) returns nil.
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 19:23:54 -0400
User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) 
Nicolas Richard wrote:

> Evalling
> (locate-dominating-file "." "Makefile")
> I get nil (unless the current directory has the file Makefile in it).

Maybe locate-dominating-file should first call expand-file-name on FILE.
As it stands, it doesn't work with any non-absolute file name.
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