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Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 11:44:58 -0400
From: Todd Goodman <tsg@bonedaddy.net>
To: "Sagar R. Shah" <Sagar.Shah@sid.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: CYGWIN GCC Switch
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My cygwin perl (from Chuck Wilson's web site) gives "cygwin" for $^O.

I'd recommend running the Cygwin perl in the cygwin environment.

* Sagar R. Shah <Sagar.Shah@sid.cam.ac.uk> [001004 11:37]:
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Todd Goodman wrote:
> 
> > Does the $^O variable do what you want?
> 
> Thanks for the idea, but no :-( 
> 
> $^O just has "MSWin32" or something like that in it. Although i'm not sure
> whether that is because I'm running Cygwin on Win98 or because my perl is
> the window ActivePerl rather than the unix/linux/cygwin version.
> 
> Any other ideas?
> 
> I could just set an environment variable in .profile, but not a very
> portable solution.
> 
> > 
> > * Sagar R. Shah <Sagar.Shah@sid.cam.ac.uk> [001004 03:00]:
> > > And does anyone know whether you can do more or less the same in Perl?
> 
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