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RE: testing if it's cygwin
- To: "Fleischer, Karsten \(K.\)" <kfleisc1 at ford dot com>
- Subject: RE: testing if it's cygwin
- From: "Kris Thielemans" <kris dot thielemans at csc dot mrc dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:12:57 -0000
- Cc: "Gnuwin" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
Hi Karsten,
sounds sensible, only B20 seems to have OSTYPE=cygwin32. I can handle that
of course.
Thanks!
>
> Hello Kris,
>
> > what would be the recommended way of testing (in a shell
> > script file, or a
> > Makefile) if it's being run on CYGWIN?
> > At the moment, I do
> > uname
> > and test on CYGWIN-NT4.0, but that seems like a bad idea, as I want to
> > support W9? or W2000 as well. Also, it relies on the
> > existence of uname of
> > course...
>
> I check the environment variable OSTYPE for "cygwin" in my makefiles.
> However, I don't know if it's reliable.
>
> Karsten
>
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