Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Authentication-Warning: bazooka.micos.at: Host [195.1.0.67] claimed to be comple.at Message-ID: <3BFA111E.273B409F@comple.at> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:15:26 +0100 From: Tibor =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=F6ldes?= Organization: comple.at X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce@EckelObjects.com CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: OSTYPE missing References: <200111192223430090.00F20FC3@mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 '.' > > Most current information can be found at: > http://www.mindview.net/Etc/notes.html > =================== > Bruce Eckel http://www.BruceEckel.com > Contains free electronic books: "Thinking in Java 2e" & "Thinking > in C++ 2e" > Please subscribe to my free newsletter -- just send any email to: > join-eckel-oo-programming@earth.lyris.net > My schedule can be found at: > http://www.mindview.net/Calendar > =================== > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ The problem is that bash not exports OSTYPE . Workaround : export OSTYPE in ~/.bashrc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/