Bruce Eckel wrote: > > 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 '.' > > Most current information can be found at: > http://www.mindview.net/Etc/notes.html > =================== > Bruce Eckel http://www.BruceEckel.com > Contains free electronic books: "Thinking in Java 2e" & "Thinking > in C++ 2e" > Please subscribe to my free newsletter -- just send any email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > My schedule can be found at: > http://www.mindview.net/Calendar > =================== > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
The problem is that bash not exports OSTYPE . Workaround : export OSTYPE in ~/.bashrc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
