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From:	"Kris Thielemans" <kris DOT thielemans AT csc DOT mrc DOT ac DOT uk>
To:	"Fleischer, Karsten \(K.\)" <kfleisc1 AT ford DOT com>
Cc:	"Gnuwin" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject:	RE: testing if it's cygwin
Date:	Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:12:57 -0000
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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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