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Re: OSTYPE missing
- From: Tibor Földes <tfoeldes at comple dot at>
- To: Bruce at EckelObjects dot com
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:15:26 +0100
- Subject: Re: OSTYPE missing
- Organization: comple.at
- References: <200111192223430090.00F20FC3@mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com>
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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