Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: remove bashism (since 2010)

[Eric Blake]

On 12/09/2015 05:53 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> From: Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>
> 
> "type" is not POSIX shell, but a bashism. (found thanks to shellcheck)

NACK.  'type' is POSIX, and shellcheck is buggy.

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/type.html

> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>
> ---
>  configure | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index ba57b3f..90eff82 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ symlink() {
>  # check whether a command is available to this shell (may be either an
>  # executable or a builtin)
>  has() {
> -    type "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1
> +    which "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1

Conversely, 'which' is _not_ POSIX, and therefore less portable than 'type'.

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