On Wed, 7 May 2025 10:57:27 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> When we setup a command to run, e.g. $FOO we typically set this to just a > path to a binary, e.g. /usr/bin/foo. However, this is not necessarily true. > On Windows, this can be prefixed by the $FIXPATH prefix, and on all platforms > we are allowed to pass arguments to the executable. > > If we want to test if this binary actually exists, we need to extract the > binary name from this command line. We have a NOFIXPATH argument to > UTIL_LOOKUP_PROGS, which tried to resolve this, but it is not enough, and it > makes it impossible to both lookup a program properly and also check for its > existance afterwards. > > Instead, I propose to add a UTIL_GET_EXECUTABLE function that extracts just > the path to the binary from such a command. This pull request has now been integrated. Changeset: a72f7506 Author: Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@openjdk.org> URL: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/a72f7506bf07be722c90ed64f5177699d2cebdb2 Stats: 37 lines in 2 files changed: 20 ins; 8 del; 9 mod 8356379: Need a proper way to test existence of binary from configure Reviewed-by: erikj ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25087
