On 17 August 2011 01:54, Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 14:07 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> > No. What I want is to find out the real path of an executable by the >> > Makefile itself. >> >> I hope I made myself clear in that `realpath' and `abspath' are >> internal Make functions that can be invoked by the Makefile itself. > > I think what narke is saying is that he doesn't HAVE the full pathname. > He just has the name of the executable itself. He wants make to FIND > the fully-qualified pathname. > > >
Yes, exactly. By far warlich's solution should work, but it really slow. May there not exists a good solution and I'd better have the user to provide the path in an environment variable. Thanks for all you kind help! -- Life is the only flaw in an otherwise perfect nonexistence -- Schopenhauer narke public key at http://subkeys.pgp.net:11371 ([email protected]) _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
