On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:06:38 -0400 Erik Southworth erik.southworth@gmail.com wrote:
To be clear, if we don't have ``which`` it shouldn't error about a c++ compiler. Also, (1) if we must have ``which``, configure should check for it before trying to use it. (2) If we need to check a prog use AC_CHECK_PROG or AC_PATH_PROG.
AFAIK,
which is a coreutils utility, so it should work on all systems capable of executing a shell script.
No. It's not part of coreutils.
In fact, I think there are many system scripts which use 'which', so if you don't have 'which', your system shouldn't even work.
It's that Geany is built in a clean chroot build environment along with only the compilers and libs required. ``which`` is not a necessary build requirement IMHO. We should have a portable, standard, ``configure`` that can build Geany, not a system utility script that calls any arbitrary prog and forces users to figure out which ones are needed.
Chances are that your $CXX is not defined to a correct variable.
How about just using a shell builtin, ``hash``, ``type -P`` or just
``eval
$CXX --version`` as a test instead?
Does $CXX --version really exist with all C++ compilers?
Bottom line: we should use portable autoconf macros not random system utilities.
If you provide a patch that does it portably we would likely apply it.
Regards, Nick