Too many slashes in path

[martindholmes]

After merging @tgraham-antenna 's PR for Windows support, on Linux and Mac we're seeing this:

Creating configuration file from file:////home/mholmes/temp/staticSearch/configTest.xml

which probably just needs a little tweak to get the slashes under control, but we'll need to make sure that there's no fallout on Windows from the fix.

[martindholmes]

Added a possible fix in commit #aff4ef3; this will need testing on Windows.

[martindholmes]

That fix breaks things on Windows, so we'll need a platform-specific hack.

[martindholmes]

In commit aff4ef3 the fix works on both platforms (although the Windows build is still broken for other reasons -- that merits another ticket). This can be closed.