[cmake-developers] Minor regression in --version results for CMake 2.8.12.1 (A FALSE ALARM)

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2013-12-05 12:27-0500 Matthew Woehlke wrote:

> On 2013-12-05 02:36, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>> Sorry, this turned out to be a false alarm. Despite "which cmake"
>> telling me I was using cmake-2.8.12.1 [snip]
>
> ...which is, of course, why you should always use "type" in bash rather than 
> "which" :-). "type", being a shell built-in, will tell you what bash will 
> *actually* run, hashing - and shell builtins, and functions, and aliases - 
> included.

Hi Matthew:

Thanks for that really good tip; the "type" bash builtin is a
bash-aware replacement for "which" that would have allowed me to completely avoid
this false alarm.

My problem is I stuck with tcsh much too long (15 years of experience
until 2003 or so when someone I knew finally convinced me to switch to
bash).  I have really liked bash ever since, but I still have some
command-line habits left from my tcsh days which almost always work
(like using "which") so I am unaware of those habits and therefore
don't look hard enough for alternatives. But due to this bad
experience with a stale cache I will definitely switch from "which" to
"type" from now on.

Alan
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