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Re: How to exclude a directory from PATH when searching an executable ?


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: How to exclude a directory from PATH when searching an executable ?
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:29:23 -0600
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On 06/14/2012 08:18 AM, Timothy Madden wrote:

>> If the "CUBRID Bison" version has some fatal flaw such that it cannot
>> be used with your package, then you should test for *that* (e.g., by
>> trying to run the detected bison on a test case) and fail the configure
>> if the test fails.
> 
> Oh, I thought there might be something like that.
> 
> I get no fatal errors from CUBRID bison, it works fine, I just do not
> trust CUBRID packagers, since they did such a thing as putting their own
> bison on my PATH, which is not even needed by CUBRID.

Why not change your PATH to put CUBRID after your desired bison, then?
There's no rule that says you have to live with CUBRID's attempt to
inject themselves first in your PATH.

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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