From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1939B429E54 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 10:30:24 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 2.438 X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.438 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL=2.438] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id f1dgmnQT1+p9 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 10:30:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx.xen14.node3324.gplhost.com (gitolite.debian.net [87.98.215.224]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CBF26429E4B for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 10:30:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from remotemail by mx.xen14.node3324.gplhost.com with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YOVff-0004aQ-I3; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:17:55 +0000 Received: (nullmailer pid 13749 invoked by uid 1000); Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:17:41 -0000 From: David Bremner To: Tomi Ollila , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure: consistent command -v usage In-Reply-To: <1424271241-11885-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi> References: <1424271241-11885-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.19+48~gb74ed1c (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:17:41 +0100 Message-ID: <87a909kbp6.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: tomi.ollila@iki.fi X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:30:24 -0000 Tomi Ollila writes: > When the shell builtin `command -v` operates normally, it either > prints the path of the arg given to it and returns zero -- or it > returns nonzero and prints nothing. > In abnormal situations something might be printed to stderr and > in that case we want to know about it; therefore the used > command -v stderr redirections to /dev/null have been removed. > > The `hash` (builtin) command in ksh returns zero even the arg > given to is is not found in path. For that and for consistency > the one appearance of it has been converted to `command -v`. > --- > > marked trivial > and pushed d