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Date: 31 May 2000 12:06:25 +0000
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From: "Michael Ring" <Michael DOT Ring AT t-mobil DOT de>
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Subject: Re: $OSTYPE - Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh !
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On Wed, 31 May 00 14:00:08 +0100, you wrote:

>Hello,
>
>with the lastest version of the bash the content of $OSTYPE has changed from
"cygwin" to "cygwin32" again without further notice. Since I used this entry to
detect the old B20.1 from the new Cygnus V1.1 I have now a lot of broken scripts
and makefiles that have to run on both versions. This drives me really crazy!
>

It seems that this version of bash was compiled with the config.guess file
included in the bash distribution. This config.guess stills responds with
i686-pc-cygwin32


>So is there any *reliable* method to detect the version of Cygwin from a script
?

use uname; using bash is a bad idea because bash burns in the values it found on
the host it was built.

Here's how to get the information:

uname 
   returns CYGWIN_NT-4.0 or CYGWIN_NT-5.0 (don't know what it returns on
win95/98
uname -r
    returns 1.1.2s(0.21/2/2) ore simmilar. everything before ( is the version
number; s seems to mean snapshot)
uname -m
    returns i686

or, you could distribute config.guess with your script, it returns
i686-pc-cygwin
a good place to find config.guess is libtool-1.3.5.tar.gz on ftp.gnu.org



>
>Greetings,
>Jörg

Hope that helps,

Micjael Ring

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