Re: [PATCH 7/8] Makefile: introduce SANE_TOOL_PATH for prepending required elements to PATH

[Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>]

I never received the referenced email.  I'll try to extract from gmane
and test.

-brandon


Jeff King wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:41:49AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>> We could further uglify the patch like this.
>> [...]
>> +git_broken_path_fix () {
>> +	case ":$PATH:" in
>> +	*:$1:*) : ok ;;
>> +	*)
>> +		PATH=$(
>> +			SANE_TOOL_PATH="$1"
>> +			IFS=: path= sep=
>> +			set x $PATH
>> +			shift
>> +			for elem
>> +			do
>> +				case "$SANE_TOOL_PATH:$elem" in
>> +				(?*:/bin | ?*:/usr/bin)
>> +					path="$path$sep$SANE_TOOL_PATH"
>> +					sep=:
>> +					SANE_TOOL_PATH=
>> +				esac
>> +				path="$path$sep$elem"
>> +				sep=:
>> +			done
>> +			echo "$path"
>> +		)
>> +		;;
>> +	esac
>> +}
> 
> Wow. That _is_ ugly, but it actually addresses exactly both my concern
> and Brandon's. I kind of like it.
> 
> -Peff