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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:07:07 +0100
From: Daniel Steinmann <daniel DOT steinmann AT insonic DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: OSTYPE missing
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In-Reply-To: <200111192223430090.00F20FC3@mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com>; from Bruce@EckelObjects.com on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:23:43PM -0800


Bruce Eckel wrote:
> I just updated to the latest Cygwin version, and suddenly the
> following lines in my makefile (which worked previously) are
> failing:
> 
> ifneq ($(OSTYPE),cygwin)
>   $(error Must be run under Cygwin, ostype is $(OSTYPE))
> endif
> 
> $(OSTYPE) is only producing '.'

I had the same problem (and question):

  http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg01039.html

My workaround:

  OSTYPE := $(findstring CYGWIN, $(shell uname))

HTH,
Daniel.

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