If the user tries to change BUILD_BASE to put the build products outside
the build tree the compile will fail due to hard coded assumptions that
$BUILD_BASE is a relative path. Fix by using $(abspath $(BUILD_BASE))
to rationalize to an absolute path every time and remove the relative
path assumptions.

This patch also adds documentation that BUILD_BASE can be specified by
the user.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Manish Pandey <manish.pandey2@arm.com>
Change-Id: Ib1af874de658484aaffc672f30029b852d2489c8