The "ant" shell script checks to see if "`uname`" contains the string "CYGWIN".
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Last > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 8:49 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: programming API to determine whether in "Cygwin environment" > > > My console program is built for native Windows (thus does not > reply on cygwin1.dll). However, people may want to use it in > a Cygwin environment and if they do I want it to behave in a > suitably "Unixy" way. The obvious example is that when it > prints out a pathname (which happens a lot) a Cygwin user > would prefer to see it in Cygwin style, including forward slashes. > > So I'm looking for a boolean method which will allow a > program to tell whether it was run from within a Cygwin > shell. An environment variable would be fine as long as it's > standard. In fact I see a number of env vars which would > enable an educated guess but am wondering if there's a > defined standard and safe way. > > TIA > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/programming-API-to-determine-whether-in- %22Cygwin-environment%22-tp18395872p18395872.html > Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/
