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OSTYPE missing

From: David Starks-Browning <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:19:12 +0000
Subject: OSTYPE missing
References: <200111192223430090.00F20FC3@mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com>

On Monday 19 Nov 01, Bruce Eckel writes:
> I just updated to the latest Cygwin version, and suddenly the
> following lines in my makefile (which worked previously) are
> failing:
> 
> ifneq ($(OSTYPE),cygwin)
>   $(error Must be run under Cygwin, ostype is $(OSTYPE))
> endif
> 
> $(OSTYPE) is only producing '.'

Clearly I'll have to put this in the FAQ.  Thanks Chet! :-)

Cheers,
David



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