From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56BD66DE13EF for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 14:22:13 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.015 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.015 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.015] autolearn=disabled Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 93i4Y17zxOFz for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 14:22:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from che.mayfirst.org (che.mayfirst.org [209.234.253.108]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 610636DE005F for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 14:22:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from fifthhorseman.net (unknown [38.109.115.130]) by che.mayfirst.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AC5C3F984; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:22:08 -0500 (EST) Received: by fifthhorseman.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CCD90202B7; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:22:08 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor To: "J. Lewis Muir" , Tomi Ollila , Notmuch Mail Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] search for a reasonable gpg implementation In-Reply-To: <566B4BCC.7060203@imca-cat.org> References: <1449718786-28000-1-git-send-email-dkg@fifthhorseman.net> <1449718786-28000-7-git-send-email-dkg@fifthhorseman.net> <566B4BCC.7060203@imca-cat.org> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.21 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:22:08 -0500 Message-ID: <87poycfwxb.fsf@alice.fifthhorseman.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 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: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 22:22:13 -0000 On Fri 2015-12-11 17:18:52 -0500, J. Lewis Muir wrote: > On 12/11/15 3:56 PM, Tomi Ollila wrote: >>> +static const char* >>> +_notmuch_database_get_gpg_path (notmuch_database_t *notmuch) >>> +{ >>> +#define try_gpg_path(z) if (!access(z, X_OK)) return z >>> + try_gpg_path("/usr/bin/gpg2"); >>> + try_gpg_path("/bin/gpg2"); >>> + try_gpg_path("/usr/bin/gpg"); >>> + try_gpg_path("/bin/gpg"); >>> + return NULL; >>> +} >> >> If this were to survive longer, BSD folks would like to have >> /usr/local/bin checked... >> (i don't know (yet) about os x > > I'm not following closely, but seeing paths to programs hard coded in > the source never seems like a good idea; invariably someone will have > the program in an unanticipated location. I'm using pkgsrc on OS X, > and my gpg is at /opt/pkg/bin/gpg. How about a Notmuch configuration > file item specifying the location of the program? Or if not that, how > about a configuration option at build time to specify the location of > gpg that then gets hard coded in the source? Or if not that, how about > an environment variable that will specify the location of the program > (e.g. like OpenSSH's SSH_ASKPASS environment variable)? Yes, the path search is genericized later in the series (7/9). clearly i should have done even more commit squashing to avoid confusing people with this distraction. point clearly taken, though; i will avoid hard-coding any paths. thanks! --dkg