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From: Grant Edwards <grante AT visi DOT com>
Subject:  Re: Reliably check if we're running under cygwin inside Makefile
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:10:06 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2009-01-12, Fergus <fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net> wrote:
> > osname := $(shell uname -s)
> > osver := $(shell uname -r)
> > cpuarch := $(shell uname -m)
>
> Probably the fault is mine but I can't get this to do anything useful in 
> Cygwin. You could try (something like):
>
>    case `uname` in
>    *CYGWIN*)
>      OS=Cygwin
>      ;;
>    *Darwin*)
>      OS=Darwin
>      ;;
>    *)
>      OS=Linux
>      ;;
>    esac
>
> and then try things like
>
>    if [ ${OS} == "Linux" ]
>    then
>    ..
>    fi

That looks like shell to me.  I thought the OP was asking for
something to use in a Makefile.

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