OSTYPE missing

David Starks-Browning starksb@ebi.ac.uk
Mon Nov 12 13:55:00 GMT 2001


On Monday 19 Nov 01, Bruce Eckel writes:
> I just updated to the latest Cygwin version, and suddenly the
> following lines in my makefile (which worked previously) are
> failing:
> 
> ifneq ($(OSTYPE),cygwin)
>   $(error Must be run under Cygwin, ostype is $(OSTYPE))
> endif
> 
> $(OSTYPE) is only producing '.'

Clearly I'll have to put this in the FAQ.  Thanks Chet! :-)

Cheers,
David



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