Re: [PATCH] kbuild: use more portable 'command -v' for cc-cross-prefix

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 8:16 PM David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Masahiro Yamada
> > Sent: 03 June 2019 11:49
> >
> > To print the pathname that will be used by shell in the current
> > environment, 'command -v' is a standardized way. [1]
> >
> > 'which' is also often used in scripting, but it is not portable.
>
> All uses of 'which' should be expunged.
> It is a bourne shell script that is trying to emulate a csh builtin.
> It is doomed to fail in corner cases.
> ISTR it has serious problems with shell functions and aliases.

OK, I do not have time to check it treewide.
I expect somebody will contribute to it.



BTW, I see yet another way to get the command path.

'type -path' is bash-specific.

Maybe, we should do this too:

diff --git a/scripts/mkuboot.sh b/scripts/mkuboot.sh
index 4b1fe09e9042..77829ee4268e 100755
--- a/scripts/mkuboot.sh
+++ b/scripts/mkuboot.sh
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/bin/sh
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0

 #
 # Build U-Boot image when `mkimage' tool is available.
 #

-MKIMAGE=$(type -path "${CROSS_COMPILE}mkimage")
+MKIMAGE=$(command -v "${CROSS_COMPILE}mkimage")

 if [ -z "${MKIMAGE}" ]; then
-       MKIMAGE=$(type -path mkimage)
+       MKIMAGE=$(command -v mkimage)
        if [ -z "${MKIMAGE}" ]; then
                # Doesn't exist
                echo '"mkimage" command not found - U-Boot images will
not be built' >&2


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada