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From: "Fleischer, Karsten (K.)" <kfleisc1 AT ford DOT com>
To: "Cygwin (E-mail 3)" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: testing if it's cygwin
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 10:29:09 -0500
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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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