Iustin Pop <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 04:43:26PM +0300, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: >> Using absolute path for a privileged command is a bad idea as this path may >> vary. >> For example /usr/sbin/brctl in Debian and /sbin/brctl in ALTLinux. Using >> $PATH is >> a better idea. > > Thanks for the patch. What do you think about detecting the path to > these commands at ./configure time and using that value, hardcoded? > E.g. using AC_PATH_PROG/AC_CHECK_PROG. This would also allow checking > of needed programs at configure time.
I was thinking about this way and found it not very good: all these programs must present in build environment (and they are redundant for building). -- Vitaly Kuznetsov, ALT Linux
