From kde-commits  Sat Sep 03 07:40:40 2011
From: Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi () kde ! org>
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 07:40:40 +0000
To: kde-commits
Subject: Re: icecream
Message-Id: <20110903074040.GA5037 () ugly ! local>
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On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 03:44:49AM +0200, Michael Matz wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.6/cc1
> > /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.6/collect2
> > /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.6/crtbegin.o
> > /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.6/liblto_plugin.so.0.0.0
> > 
> > ossi@ugly:~ > gcc --print-prog-name liblto_plugin.so
> > liblto_plugin.so
> 
> Ugh.  So the liblto_plugin.so softlink isn't in 
> /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.6/ for you (though the .so.0.0 is)?
> 
no, that's actually consistent. the list above was only meant to contain
"one of each sort", not necessarily correlating with the queries below.
but of course it's the more confusing that the file is not found with
the "right" query command even though it is clearly there.

> > anyway, given that debian (and ubuntu) are a rather massive reality, i'd
> > suggest to make the script try both.
> 
> Yeah.  Try both and use the one for which test -f succeeds I think.
> Try --print-prog-name first.
> 
oke.
fwiw, i think a better test is
  test -z "${path##/*}"
this just checks whether it starts with a slash, which should be
sufficient.