From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `make' written in elisp Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:36:06 +0200 Message-ID: <01c4f177$Blat.v2.2.2$cb741080@zahav.net.il> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104745209 3823 80.91.229.6 (3 Jan 2005 09:40:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:40:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: angeli@iwi.uni-sb.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 03 10:40:00 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ClOgy-0002Et-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:40:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ClOs6-0005Fp-Om for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 04:51:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ClOrj-0005CI-VQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 04:51:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ClOrh-0005BT-QK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 04:51:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ClOrh-0005BC-GD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 04:51:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.24] (helo=legolas.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ClOgC-0004uC-26; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 04:39:12 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (IGLD-83-130-245-116.inter.net.il [83.130.245.116]) by legolas.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id DLH30545 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 11:39:01 +0200 (IST) Original-To: David Kastrup X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.2.2 In-reply-to: (message from David Kastrup on Mon, 03 Jan 2005 09:02:37 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:31725 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31725 > From: David Kastrup > Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 09:02:37 +0100 > Cc: Ralf Angeli , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Well, at least a standard function for finding the path name of an > executable in PATH and/or in general a file in a set of locations > might be nice to have. We already have that, I think: locate-file-internal is a built-in function in `C source code'. (locate-file-internal FILENAME PATH &optional SUFFIXES PREDICATE) Search for FILENAME through PATH. If SUFFIXES is non-nil, it should be a list of suffixes to append to file name when searching. If non-nil, PREDICATE is used instead of `file-readable-p'. PREDICATE can also be an integer to pass to the access(2) function, in which case file-name-handlers are ignored. Isn't this what you wanted?