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Re: Locating a program in a portable way
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Locating a program in a portable way |
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07 Sep 2003 17:15:03 -0700 |
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address@hidden writes:
> So the current plan is to read $PATH, prepend (or append) our
> $libexecdir to the path, and then walk the path looking for the program.
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> The problem is how to do it in a portable way.
Yes, it's a bit tricky, but gnulib's findprog module does that.
See <http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib>, and grab the following files:
modules/findprog
lib/findprog.h
lib/findprog.c
m4/findprog.m4
m4/eaccess.m4