[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Prefer 'command -v' over 'which' (for portability)

Bjørn Forsman bjorn.forsman at gmail.com
Mon Jan 27 19:47:33 UTC 2014


On 27 January 2014 07:44, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Dear Bjørn Forsman,
>
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 15:11:56 +0100, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
>
>>   $ make
>>
>>   You must install 'which' on your build machine
>>   make: *** [core-dependencies] Error 1
>
> But then, do we still need to have "which" installed? Maybe this hard
> dependency is no longer necessary?

Don't know. I was under the impression that "which" was used by
autotools, but I didn't check it.


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