Re: [PATCH 1/3] t/lib-httpd: dynamically detect httpd and modules path

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 8, 2023, 16:44 UTC
Message-ID: <20231108164432.GA1028115@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <ZUtmAyVHO4ROhLEq@tanuki>

On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 11:42:11AM +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

> I was a bit torn myself when writing this. I can also see a potential
> future where we would drop the hardcoded list of locations altogether in
> favor of always using PATH. After all we already rely on PATH to resolve
> other tools as well, so why should httpd be special there?

httpd/apache2 is often in sbin, which is not as commonly found in the PATH of regular users. E.g., this is the case on Debian (it is /sbin/apache2, and a newly created user will not have that in their PATH).

-Peff

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