[Geany-devel] Geany 0.18 (configure.in) has hidden depends on 'which' utility.

[Enrico Tröger]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:27:37 +0200, Enrico wrote:

>On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:06:38 -0400, Erik wrote:
>
>
>>> 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.
>
>The whole reason for using "which" was to be more portable. The
>autoconf macros you mention are broken or at least not usable for
>checking for a C++ compiler (or I'm too stupid, then they are just to
>hard to use).
>
>As Nick said, if it is such an issue and you know it that better, we
>would be happy about a sane patch to improve things.

This patch actually reduced portability.

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=787791&aid=2973764&group_id=153444

Solutions would be welcome.

Regards,
Enrico

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