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)