From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:26:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sure to use Araxis' "compare" and not e.g. ImageMagick's
Message-ID: <m2zk6qxj7l.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <CAHGBnuOz94YR9wx_goL5YaWzPt5Z9c3gBB9CtyfcE40F5amrXw@mail.gmail.com>

Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> writes:

> Please feel free to ignore the patch if you feel the heuristics is not
> sufficiently safe. I'm currently unable to come up with a safer
> solution while maintaining portability, i.e. not use "which" or doing
> rather laborious string parsing on the output of "type".

How about looking at "compare --version"?

Andreas.

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