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Re: Reliably check if we're running under cygwin inside Makefile
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: Fergus <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:06:39 +0000
- Subject: Re: Reliably check if we're running under cygwin inside Makefile
- References: <496B828A.3010006@bonhard.uklinux.net>
Fergus 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
Hmm, did you try those first examples in bash before deciding they didn't
work? Because your alternative proposal looks a lot like shell script...
Perhaps you need to read the subject line again!
cheers,
DaveK
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