Re: How to detect program path?

[narke]

On 15 August 2011 21:01, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:38:29 +0800
>> From: narke <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden
>>
>> > There's a program called "which" that will show the full absolute name
>> > of a program, assuming that the program is on your PATH.
>>
>> Yes, but it has to ask users to add the programs into the PATH.
>
> If the program is not on PATH, then you invoke it from Make by its
> full file name with leading directories, right?  In that case, using
> the `realpath' or `abspath' functions of Make will do what you want.
>

No. What I want is to find out the real path of an executable by the
Makefile itself.


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