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From: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] configure: Add test for Perl
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 16:10:11 +0300
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Dennis Stosberg <dennis@stosberg.net> wrote:

> +	echocheck "for perl"
> +	if test -z "$_perl" ; then
> +		_perl=`which perl`
> +		test "$_perl" || die "cannot find path to perl"
> +	fi
> +	echores "$_perl"

"which" isn't portable. On SunOS 5.9 "which foo" prints error message to
stdout and returns 0.  I use this in my own configure scripts:

path_find()
{
        if test -x "$1"
        then
                echo "$1"
                return 0
        fi
        for i in `echo $PATH | sed 's/:/ /g'`
        do
                if test -x "$i/$1"
                then
                        echo "$i/$1"
                        return 0
                fi
        done
        return 1
}

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