Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com x-mimeole: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 ZPC207050 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) bug Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 06:04:40 -0700 Message-Id: <60376EEA35F4964CA2DF6A00D72B74FD7F7F76@MBSP06.services.sp.trw.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Hornsby, Kelly" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Jun 2003 13:04:40.0728 (UTC) FILETIME=[04F9F980:01C3301A] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h5CJfob01372 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? Kelly Hornsby Software Engineer Northrop Grumman Space Technology 293 Highway 247 South Warner Robins GA 31088 1-478-329-2153 (voice) 1-478-929-7335 (fax) mailto:kelly.hornsby@ngc.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/