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Re: `${UNAME}` not working....



---Jon Maltz <jmaltz@nema.com> wrote:

Hi Jon,

>
> One configure script I use does:
> 
> if test x`${UNAME}` = "xCYGWIN32_NT"; then echo "bleh bleh, NT, bleh";
> else echo "NT not found, bleh bleh"; fi
> 
> This used to work in beta 18, in beta 19.1 it doesn't...if I change
it to
> text x`UNAME` it does work, but of course then it will generate
error when
> run under other *nix OS's...
> 
> Any clues on this behavior?

Do you have "binmode" in the list of values for the CYGWIN32
environment variable?  If not then chances are that ${UNAME} is
returning "CYGWIN32_NT\r".

> 
> Jon

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