From: mh@mike.franken.de (Michael Hirmke)
Subject: Re: `${UNAME}` not working....
2 May 1998 03:41:12 -0700
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Hi Jon,

>One configure script I use does:
>
>if test x`${UNAME}` = "xCYGWIN32_NT"; then echo "bleh bleh, NT, bleh";
           ^^^^^^^^
           where does this env var
           come form ? never saw it
           before.

>else echo "NT not found, bleh bleh"; fi


if test "x$(uname)" = "xCYGWIN32_NT"; then echo "bleh bleh, NT, bleh";
else echo "NT not found, bleh bleh"; fi

works as expected.

>
>This used to work in beta 18, in beta 19.1 it doesn't...if I change it to
>text x`UNAME` it does work, but of course then it will generate error when
>run under other *nix OS's...
>
>Any clues on this behavior?
>
>Jon

Bye.
Michael.
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