From 533e7641ab940ba4d0b24bb64af80cdff8a9a6f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Michael Gene Brockus (Dreamer)"
 <55331536+dreamer-coding-555@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 10:44:42 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Update utilitylib.py

---
 mesonui/mesonuilib/utilitylib.py | 9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mesonui/mesonuilib/utilitylib.py b/mesonui/mesonuilib/utilitylib.py
index 2e3816b..ce436d3 100755
--- a/mesonui/mesonuilib/utilitylib.py
+++ b/mesonui/mesonuilib/utilitylib.py
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 # copyright 2020 The Meson-UI development team
 #
 """A library of random helper functionality."""
-from distutils.spawn import find_executable
 from pathlib import Path
 import subprocess
 import functools
@@ -22,12 +21,12 @@
 import typing as T
 
 
-def find_executables(file_names):
+def find_executables(file_names: T.List[str]) -> str:
     for file_name in file_names:
-        res = find_executable(file_name)
-        if res:
+        res = shutil.which(file_name)
+        if res is not None:
             return res
-    raise RuntimeError(f'Executables "{file_names}" not found in path.')
+    raise RuntimeError(f'Executable(s) "{", ".join(file_names)}" not found in path.')
 
 
 '''