Loïc Minier schrieb:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010, Loïc Minier wrote:
>
>> Following the thread on the sdl-config patch, please find attached a
>> patch to add a couple of portable shell functions which allow testing
>> whehter a command/builtin is available and to find the full pathname of
>> an executable in the PATH. This also replaces all uses of "which" in
>> ./configure. (This should be applied on top of the sdl-config patch.)
>>
>
> Please find attached a new version of the patch with a simpler version
> of path_of() which uses IFS instead of the ${foo#bar} and ${foo%%bar}
> constructs. It also removes the special casing of an empty PATH.
I did not test the whole patch, but I think this would be better:
+ type "$local_command" >/dev/null 2>&1
(type sends error messages to stderr, we don't want to see them)
