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From: Krister Joas <krister@gazonk.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Remove bash-ism from configure
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On Feb 12, 2007, at 6:17 PM, Jernej Simon=C4=8Di=C4=8D wrote:

> On Monday, February 12, 2007, 9:55:25, Krister Joas wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> On my Linux boxes, which is either a sh script (on Debian), or a =20
> (compiled)
> program (on Gentoo and Slackware). On my firewall (based on =20
> FreeBSD), which
> is also a program (and also a /bin/sh builtin).

I stand corrected.  NetBSD seems to have removed it completely and =20
instead relies on shell built-in commands.  On OpenBSD it's also a =20
binary.  My references were Solaris and Mac OS X, where it's =20
unfortunately still a csh script.

Krister