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From: Krister Joas <krister@gazonk.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Remove bash-ism from configure
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On Feb 12, 2007, at 2:41 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>>> This is one I introduced in the gcc-3.x autodetect.  It's against  
>>> CVS from a little while ago so hopefully it's just fuzz.
>>>
>>
>> AFAICT "which" is not really portable, either. But then, I always  
>> have a bash, so I really don't care.
>>
>
> On my system, which is an executable, not a shell command so it's  
> outside the scope of bashism.  It's also used elsewhere within  
> configure.

You should take a look at that executable.  On most systems I know, / 
usr/bin/which is a csh script.  It has to be because it also finds  
aliases.  It may or may not be portable to use 'which', I'm not  
really sure, but it's not very efficient.

Krister