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From:	"Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To:	"Hornsby, Kelly" <kelly DOT hornsby AT ngc DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 ZPC207050 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) bug
Date:	Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:26:43 +0100
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Hornsby, Kelly wrote:
> I just discovered that an environment variable OSTYPE is not longer
exported by default to a
> subprocess under this version of Cygwin.  Why did this occur?  Was it
intentional, or
> inadvertent?  I use this often, and although I can perform an export
OSTYPE explicitly,  I now
> have lots of broken makefiles that won't work anymore.  Do you have any
suggestions?  Otherwise,
> can this guy be fixed in the next minor release?

Nothing to do with Cygwin.

This was a change in the upstream version of bash, in version 2.05a.

This version was released as a Cygwin package in NOVEMBER 2001 !!!

Your makefiles are making an invalid assumption that OSTYPE will always be
defined. Fix them to not assume that.



Max.


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