Re: [patch] search a little harder for mkimage

[Mike Frysinger]

On 12/19/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > -MKIMAGE=$(type -path mkimage)
> > +MKIMAGE=$(type -path ${CROSS_COMPILE}mkimage)
>
> Do all bash versions support `type -path'?

i've just always used `type -p` myself ...

but, bash-2.05 supports it for sure and that was released back in 2001 ...

> Perhaps /usr/bin/which would be safer, dunno.

which can be tricky as it behaves a little differently on some
platforms and may not always even be installed ... OS X for example is
notorious for being a piece of crap ... `which asdfasdf` will echo the
error to stdout and exit with a status of 0 even though the test
obviously failed
-mike
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