From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:10:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config.mak.uname: set PERL_PATH for FreeBSD 5.0+
Message-ID: <CAPc5daXuZZuhaTW-hb6FOo6p+gzvrd-rx-FDvo4VzCOH+HpSJg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160720180702.GA13404@starla>

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> 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')