title: Maven how set absolute path for parent pom
body: <p>with maven 3 i have a parent project at 'C:/travail/parent'.
  I have several child-projects who, for various reasons, can change locations.
  To make a war, the relativePath tag must be set.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;parent&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;framework.parent&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;parent&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;1.0.0-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;relativePath&gt;C:/Travail/parent/pom.xml&lt;/relativePath&gt;
  &lt;/parent&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Question</strong>: How can I put an absolute path for the parent? The following doesn't work.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;relativePath&gt;/C:/Travail/parent/pom.xml&lt;/relativePath&gt;
  </code></pre>