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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config.mak.uname: set PERL_PATH for FreeBSD 5.0+
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 11:10:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPc5daXuZZuhaTW-hb6FOo6p+gzvrd-rx-FDvo4VzCOH+HpSJg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160720180702.GA13404@starla>

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
> Also, my use of a numeric comparison may be more future-proof
> in case FreeBSD decides to have /usr/bin/perl again.
>
> I also wonder why we don't use `which` to search for somewhat
> standard path components, instead.  Something like:

Because historically output from "which" was not meant to be
machine parseable (some implementation said 'perl is /usr/bin/perl')

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-20 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-20  2:56 [PATCH] config.mak.uname: set PERL_PATH for FreeBSD 5.0+ Eric Wong
2016-07-20 11:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-20 18:07   ` Eric Wong
2016-07-20 18:10     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-07-21  1:02       ` brian m. carlson
2016-07-21 15:17     ` Johannes Schindelin

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