moseley@xxxxxxxx writes: > So the current plan is to read $PATH, prepend (or append) our > $libexecdir to the path, and then walk the path looking for the program. > > The problem is how to do it in a portable way. Yes, it's a bit tricky, but gnulib's findprog module does that. See <http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib>, and grab the following files: modules/findprog lib/findprog.h lib/findprog.c m4/findprog.m4 m4/eaccess.m4