Hornsby, Kelly wrote: > I just discovered that an environment variable OSTYPE is not longer exported by default to a > subprocess under this version of Cygwin. Why did this occur? Was it intentional, or > inadvertent? I use this often, and although I can perform an export OSTYPE explicitly, I now > have lots of broken makefiles that won't work anymore. Do you have any suggestions? Otherwise, > can this guy be fixed in the next minor release?
Nothing to do with Cygwin. This was a change in the upstream version of bash, in version 2.05a. This version was released as a Cygwin package in NOVEMBER 2001 !!! Your makefiles are making an invalid assumption that OSTYPE will always be defined. Fix them to not assume that. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
