On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 8:16 PM David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Masahiro Yamada
> > Sent: 03 June 2019 11:49
> >
> > To print the pathname that will be used by shell in the current
> > environment, 'command -v' is a standardized way. [1]
> >
> > 'which' is also often used in scripting, but it is not portable.
>
> All uses of 'which' should be expunged.
> It is a bourne shell script that is trying to emulate a csh builtin.
> It is doomed to fail in corner cases.
> ISTR it has serious problems with shell functions and aliases.
OK, I do not have time to check it treewide.
I expect somebody will contribute to it.
BTW, I see yet another way to get the command path.
'type -path' is bash-specific.
Maybe, we should do this too:
diff --git a/scripts/mkuboot.sh b/scripts/mkuboot.sh
index 4b1fe09e9042..77829ee4268e 100755
--- a/scripts/mkuboot.sh
+++ b/scripts/mkuboot.sh
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/bin/sh
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
#
# Build U-Boot image when `mkimage' tool is available.
#
-MKIMAGE=$(type -path "${CROSS_COMPILE}mkimage")
+MKIMAGE=$(command -v "${CROSS_COMPILE}mkimage")
if [ -z "${MKIMAGE}" ]; then
- MKIMAGE=$(type -path mkimage)
+ MKIMAGE=$(command -v mkimage)
if [ -z "${MKIMAGE}" ]; then
# Doesn't exist
echo '"mkimage" command not found - U-Boot images will
not be built' >&2
--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
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