Avoid using relative path in Process.start - #193664

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2026-10-02 [email protected] Roll Skia from 7b7326917e77 to 9e88bf828078 (8 revisions) (flutter/flutter#193694)
2026-10-02 [email protected] [Widget Preview] Provide descriptive error when widget preview is unconstrained (flutter/flutter#193005)
2026-10-02 [email protected] Roll Dart SDK from 0e7642b85457 to ac1a97aae47d (26 revisions) (flutter/flutter#193692)
2026-10-02 [email protected] Remove unused Fuchsia sysmem header files (flutter/flutter#193244)
2026-10-02 [email protected] [Windows] Preserve composing extent in setEditingState (flutter/flutter#189968)
2026-10-02 [email protected] [docs] Make Border.symmetric docs more explicit about their arguments (flutter/flutter#193222)
2026-10-02 [email protected] [Embedder] Support render texture for vulkan (flutter/flutter#188855)
2026-10-02 [email protected] Updated Remaining Engine Defaults to SDK 37 (flutter/flutter#190429)
2026-10-02 [email protected] Document that enableSuggestions: false can disable keyboard languages on Android (flutter/flutter#192714)
2026-10-02 [email protected] [flutter_tools] Explicitly track host CPU architecture in command result analytics (flutter/flutter#191836)
2026-10-02 [email protected] [web] Preserve DOM focus on role update and honor isAccessibilityFocusBlocked (flutter/flutter#192963)
2026-10-02 [email protected] [flutter_tools] Include base href in web hot reload script paths (flutter/flutter#193678)
2026-10-02 [email protected] [Impeller] Deduplicate GLES render pass state (flutter/flutter#193427)
2026-10-02 [email protected] Roll Skia from f2d68e0b8863 to 7b7326917e77 (16 revisions) (flutter/flutter#193676)
2026-10-01 [email protected] Fix analysis failures due to missing `const` (flutter/flutter#193685)
2026-10-01 [email protected] Removes a11y_assessment app (flutter/flutter#193671)
2026-10-01 [email protected] test: configure Xvfb and openbox for windowing_test (flutter/flutter#193529)
2026-10-01 [email protected] Sync CHANGELOG.md from stable (flutter/flutter#193666)
2026-10-01 [email protected] Avoid using relative path in Process.start (flutter/flutter#193664)
2026-10-01 [email protected] [AGP 9.1.0 Migration #6] Deliver Flutter assets as a generated assets source directory on the app path (flutter/flutter#192488)
2026-10-01 [email protected] ci(bringup): android_java17_build_android_host_app_with_module_aar is green (flutter/flutter#193580)
2026-10-01 [email protected] [flutter_tools] Fix Use dependency graph to determine plugin initialization order (flutter/flutter#191591)
2026-10-01 [email protected] [flutter_tools] Migrate DaemonCommand and Daemon domains to constructor DI (flutter/flutter#193542)

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Related to flutter#193579
Follow-up to flutter#193582 and
flutter#193664

Dart SDK commit 0171629a5478 migrated macOS process spawning to
`posix_spawn`. Under `posix_spawn` and Windows `CreateProcess`,
`Process.start` resolves relative executables against the caller's
working directory rather than the target `workingDirectory`.

While PR flutter#193582 and PR flutter#193664 addressed `customer_testing`, other
areas across the repository still invoke relative executables with
custom working directories directly via `Process.start` / `Process.run`.
This PR addresses the remaining locations:

1. **`dev/bots/suite_runners`**: Construct absolute script paths in
`run_add_to_app_life_cycle_tests.dart`, `run_docs_tests.dart`, and
`run_skp_generator_tests.dart`.
2. **`packages/flutter_tools`**: In `gradle_utils.dart`, resolve
`gradlew` / `gradlew.bat` via `androidDirectory.childFile(...)`.
3. **`dev/devicelab`**: In `utils.dart` `startProcess`, normalize
relative executables containing directory separators against
`finalWorkingDirectory`.
4. **Engine tooling**: Resolve absolute paths for `content_aware_hash`
in `web_ui/dev/common.dart` and `gradlew` in
`tools/gradle/generate_gradle_cipd_packages.dart`.

## Testing

- `flutter_tools`: Unit tests in
`packages/flutter_tools/test/general.shard/android/gradle_utils_test.dart`
and `project_test.dart` cover POSIX and Windows `gradlew` path
resolution.
- Test infrastructure (`dev/`, `engine/`): Validated via CI runs
(`test-exempt: changes to test infrastructure`).


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