Re: [PATCH] config.mak.uname: set PERL_PATH for FreeBSD 5.0+

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:10:40AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Eric Wong [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Also, my use of a numeric comparison may be more future-proof
in case FreeBSD decides to have /usr/bin/perl again.

I also wonder why we don't use `which` to search for somewhat
standard path components, instead.  Something like:

Because historically output from "which" was not meant to be
machine parseable (some implementation said 'perl is /usr/bin/perl')

The POSIXy way to write which is "command -v", which may or may not be
more portable.  It does have the desired output, though.
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