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Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 09:20:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: $OSTYPE - Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh !
To: Michael Ring <Michael DOT Ring AT t-mobil DOT de>,
        "cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
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--- Michael Ring <Michael DOT Ring AT t-mobil DOT de> wrote:
> On Wed, 31 May 00 14:00:08 +0100, you wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >with the lastest version of the bash the content of $OSTYPE has changed from
> "cygwin" to "cygwin32" again without further notice. Since I used this entry
> to
> detect the old B20.1 from the new Cygnus V1.1 I have now a lot of broken
> scripts
> and makefiles that have to run on both versions. This drives me really crazy!
> >
> 
> It seems that this version of bash was compiled with the config.guess file
> included in the bash distribution. This config.guess stills responds with
> i686-pc-cygwin32
> 

Yep.

> 
> >So is there any *reliable* method to detect the version of Cygwin from a
> script
> ?
> 
> use uname; using bash is a bad idea because bash burns in the values it found
> on
> the host it was built.
> 
> Here's how to get the information:
> 
> uname
>    returns CYGWIN_NT-4.0 or CYGWIN_NT-5.0 (don't know what it returns on
> win95/98

use the source to find out.

> uname -r
>     returns 1.1.2s(0.21/2/2) ore simmilar. everything before ( is the version
> number; s seems to mean snapshot)

The 's' was added very recently to mean snapshot.

> uname -m
>     returns i686
> 
> or, you could distribute config.guess with your script, it returns
> i686-pc-cygwin
> a good place to find config.guess is libtool-1.3.5.tar.gz on ftp.gnu.org
> 

No.  The best place to get config.guess and config.sub is from the config
directory found at ftp.gnu.org or a mirror.



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