It causes more trouble than it's worth, and we should move to building those
host tools ourselves to not get into version issues anyway.
HOSTLD:=$(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) -c "which $(HOSTLD)" || type -p $(HOSTLD) || echo ld)
HOSTLN:=$(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) -c "which $(HOSTLN)" || type -p $(HOSTLN) || echo ln)
HOSTNM:=$(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) -c "which $(HOSTNM)" || type -p $(HOSTNM) || echo nm)
-# ignore version in staging_dir
-HOST_GLIB_BIN:=`dirname $(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) -c "(which -a glib-genmarshal; echo /usr/bin/glib-genmarshal)|grep -v $(BR2_STAGING_DIR)|head -n 1")`
+HOST_GLIB_BIN:=`dirname $(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) -c "which glib-genmarshal" || echo /usr/bin/glib-genmarshal)`
HOST_GLIB:=$(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) -c "dirname $(HOST_GLIB_BIN)" || echo /usr)