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Subject: Re: OSTYPE missing
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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 '.'
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The problem is that bash not exports  OSTYPE .

Workaround :

export OSTYPE in ~/.bashrc

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