From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `make' written in elisp Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:45:45 -0500 Message-ID: References: <01c4f177$Blat.v2.2.2$cb741080@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104770878 5056 80.91.229.6 (3 Jan 2005 16:47:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:47:58 +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 17:47:47 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 1ClVMx-00040S-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:47:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ClVY7-0006O4-4E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:59:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ClVXx-0006Np-4k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:59:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ClVXv-0006ND-SL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:59:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ClVXv-0006Mw-KX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:59:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ClVL4-0007LM-Um; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:45:51 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAD508282AE; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 11:45:50 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49AB74AC0C2; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 11:45:46 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2FE778CA69; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 11:45:46 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <01c4f177$Blat.v2.2.2$cb741080@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:36:06 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-4.628, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, AWL 0.27, BAYES_00 -4.90) X-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca 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:31735 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31735 >> 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) I'd rather advertise locate-file. There's also executable-find. Stefan