RE: How to detect program path?

[Warlich, Christof]

Is it just a search for an (executable) file that you are looking for?
Then this may do the job:

EXECUTABLE:=$(shell find / -name yourExecutable)

But note that this is rather slow and may yield more that one location.  

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Dienstag, 16. August 2011 12:28
To: Eli Zaretskii
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Subject: Re: How to detect program path?

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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