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From: Troy Noble <troy DOT noble AT channelpoint DOT com>
To: "'Daniel Steinmann'" <daniel DOT steinmann AT insonic DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: bash-2.05a-1: OSTYPE is empty
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:40:27 -0700
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Instead you can safely use the following across platforms (works on Unix in
other words):

case `uname` in
   CYGWIN*) # cygwin-specific stuff here such as OSTYPE=cygwin ;->
            ;;
         *) # non-cygwin stuff here
            ;;
esac

To ease maintainability, be sure not to use CYGWIN_NT* or
CYGWIN_NT-5* if possible.  Or has that been changed now?  I
remember talk of it on the list a couple months back.

I suspect others are going to experience the same Makefile and
shell script breakage if they were relying on OSTYPE & friends.
The uname thing is more stable since it doesn't rely on any
feature of bash per se.

Troy

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Steinmann [mailto:daniel DOT steinmann AT insonic DOT com]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 6:46 AM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: bash-2.05a-1: OSTYPE is empty



Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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.

Obviously I did not read the bash ChangeLog, sorry. 

Now it is clear why in my Makefile the check for OSTYPE does not
work anymore. 

Thank you for your help,
Daniel.

-- 
Daniel Steinmann, Insonic AG, Zuerich, Switzerland
daniel DOT steinmann AT insonic DOT com, +41 1 456 50 00, fax: +41 1 456 50 01

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