From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 06:59:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Don't rely on which, use an Autoconf-like test instead.
X-Git-Tag: Release-1-7-2b~127
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=57972c6718f3ae13aa23aa78ce03ef8997c2f5ed;p=thirdparty%2Fautomake.git

Don't rely on which, use an Autoconf-like test instead.
Reported by Frédéric L. W. Meunier" <0@pervalidus.net>
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diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
index 3c2f517b6..28d8d3deb 100755
--- a/bootstrap
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -23,12 +23,21 @@
 # Don't ignore failures
 set -e
 
-# Find perl.  Not as good as autoconf would do, but good enough.
+# Find perl.  Code based on Autoconf, but without non-POSIX support.
 if test -z "$PERL"; then
-	PERL="`which perl 2>/dev/null`"
+	save_IFS=$IFS
+	IFS=:
+	for dir in $PATH; do
+		IFS=$save_IFS
+		test -z "$dir" && dir=.
+		if test -x "$dir/perl"; then
+			PERL="$dir/perl"
+			break
+		fi
+	done
 fi
 
-if test -z $PERL; then
+if test -z "$PERL"; then
 	echo "Cannot find perl" 2>&1
 	exit 1
 fi