Re: libtool assumes that "file" is in /usr/bin

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2008-05-07 21:39:22 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Thu, 8 May 2008, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>> Is there any reason why libtool uses "/usr/bin/file" instead of "file"
>> (/usr/bin being in $PATH)?
>
> Some people have claimed that libtool is slow and substantially slows  
> down their builds.  Using full paths to tools is one way to execute  
> faster.

But an exception for "file" (since a problem is known for this
particular utility) would not change very much the execution time.

>  Hard-coding a path in a .m4 is just plain wrong.

This wasn't my proposition.

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