From: brian m. carlson Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 01:02:07 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] config.mak.uname: set PERL_PATH for FreeBSD 5.0+ Message-ID: <20160721010206.GA215655@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net> In-Reply-To: On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:10:40AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Eric Wong wrote: > > Also, my use of a numeric comparison may be more future-proof > > in case FreeBSD decides to have /usr/bin/perl again. > > > > I also wonder why we don't use `which` to search for somewhat > > standard path components, instead. Something like: > > Because historically output from "which" was not meant to be > machine parseable (some implementation said 'perl is /usr/bin/perl') The POSIXy way to write which is "command -v", which may or may not be more portable. It does have the desired output, though. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | https://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204