Update lib/container.js

Co-authored-by: kobenguyent <[email protected]>

Author: mjalav

lib/container.js

@@ -562,16 +562,16 @@ function getHelperModuleName(helperName, config) {
   // built-in helpers
   return `./helper/${helperName}`
 }
-
 function normalizeAndJoin(basePath, subPath) {
-  // Normalize the path (handles extra slashes and resolves `..`)
-  let normalizedBase = path.normalize(basePath);
-  let normalizedSub = path.normalize(subPath);
+  // Normalize and convert slashes to forward slashes in one step
+  const normalizedBase = path.posix.normalize(basePath.replace(/\\/g, '/'))
+  const normalizedSub = path.posix.normalize(subPath.replace(/\\/g, '/'))
 
-  // Replace backslashes with forward slashes
-  normalizedBase = normalizedBase.replace(/\\/g, '/');
-  normalizedSub = normalizedSub.replace(/\\/g, '/');
+  // If subPath is absolute (starts with "/"), return it as the final path
+  if (normalizedSub.startsWith('/')) {
+    return normalizedSub
+  }
 
   // Join the paths using POSIX-style
-  return path.posix.join(normalizedBase, normalizedSub);
+  return path.posix.join(normalizedBase, normalizedSub)
 }