Cygwin doesn't create an environment variable in bash to indicate that the platform is Cygwin under Windows.
This causes compatibility problems when running various tools. Most of my issues have been with Python tools running Windows Python. I have been addressing this issue by grepping PATH for cygdrive which doesn't seem like a very good approach. Both msys2 and mingw solve this issue by setting the MSYSTEM environment variable which lets tools check that OS=Windows_NT and MSYSTEM=MSYS Please add some way of identifying that programs are running under Cygwin. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
