Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:26:45 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bash-2.05a-1: OSTYPE is empty Message-ID: <20011116142645.A19742@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20011116140042.A1128@stonie.insonic.com> <3BF510FC.9090200@niles.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BF510FC.9090200@niles.de>; from alexander.mader@niles.de on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:13:32PM +0100 On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:13:32PM +0100, Mader, Alexander wrote: > Daniel Steinmann wrote: > > > Today I upgraded to bash-2.05a-1 and noticed that the variable > > OSTYPE is empty. Other variables like OS are still ok. So I rolled > > back to bash-2.05-8; in this version I get the expected value > > 'cygwin'. > > > > Is this just my machine (Win2k prof, cygwin-1.3.5) or has anybody > > else noticed the same problem? > > > > Daniel. > > > > > > Hallo Daniel, > > it seems okay with my machine (NT, todays Cygwin), see below. However, the following is given in the ChangeLog: x. Bash no longer auto-exports HOSTNAME, HOSTTYPE, MACHTYPE, or OSTYPE, even if it assigns them default values. Try set | grep OS and these variables are still available, just not exported. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/