Re: [gentoo-dev] dont use `which` in ebuilds

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 12 March 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> instead, since we require bash for our ebuilds, use the builtin `type -p`

err i botched that ;)

`type -p` is almost a complete drop in replacement for which ... it does not 
work on bash builtins however, so people should use `type -P` to force the 
PATH search

in other words, `type -p echo` would return "" while `type -P echo` would 
return "/bin/echo"
-mike