Re: How to detect program path?

[Stephan Beal]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Warlich, Christof <
address@hidden> wrote:

> EXECUTABLE:=$(shell find / -name yourExecutable)
>
> But note that this is rather slow and may yield more that one location.
>
>
This one is faster:

########################################################################
# FIND_FILE call()able function:
# $1 = app name
# $2 = optional path
FIND_FILE = $(firstword $(wildcard $(addsuffix /$(1),$(subst :, ,$(2)
$(PATH)))))

CC := $(call FIND_FILE,gcc)

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