[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Prefer 'command -v' over 'which' (for portability)

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27 January 2014 10:19, Samuel Martin <s.martin49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Bjørn, all,
>
> [...]
>
>> "command -v" seems not playing very well with aliases:
>>
>> $ command -v make
>> alias make='~/.config/ctafconf/bin/colorwarper make'
>> $ which make
>> /usr/bin/make
>
> Ah, correct.
>
> There is "type -P" which is more like "which" in that regard, but the
> "-P" option doesn't seem to be specified by POSIX. For example, "type
> -P which" fails in dash.
>
> Instead of an alias, you could write a one-liner shell wrapper? I tend
> to prefer wrappers over aliases anyway, because of issues like these;
> aliases sometimes behave differently than proper commands.

Why I also think this is saner than aliases, we cannot dictate this
principle to all buildroot users, so buildroot cannot rely on aliases
not being used...

Best regards,
Thomas