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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>
- Subject: Re: $OSTYPE - Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh !
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 09:20:39 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- Michael Ring <Michael.Ring@t-mobil.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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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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