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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, kwolf@redhat.com, mjt@tls.msk.ru,
	stefanha@redhat.com, mreitz@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-iotests: Fix error message if which(1) not installed
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:40:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <546ACDBD.9010403@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1416278986-17320-1-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com>

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On 11/17/2014 07:49 PM, Fam Zheng wrote:
> When which(1) is not installed, we complain "perl not found" because
> it's the first set_prog_path check. The error message is misleading.
> 
> Fix it by adding a check for which(1) in the beginning.

Why not instead change set_prog_path to use 'command -v' instead of
'which'?  As this is a bash script, we shouldn't need to shell out to an
optional package for something we can do natively.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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      reply	other threads:[~2014-11-18  4:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-18  2:49 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-iotests: Fix error message if which(1) not installed Fam Zheng
2014-11-18  4:40 ` Eric Blake [this message]

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