Re: cygwin detection

[Robert Pendell <shinji257 at uplink dot net>]

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George wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:50:40AM -0400, Kenneth Nellis wrote:
>> I have bash scripts that I want to run identically under Cygwin and 
>> Linux, which sometimes require the scripts to detect the environment 
>> and branch accordingly. There are numerous ways to do Cygwin detection, 
>> but I was wondering what technique should work with the widest audience 
>> and be most immune to future Cygwin developments.
> 
> The widest audience, in your case, being one?  ;-)
> 
>> FWIW, below are various techniques that work for *me* *today*, some of 
>> which have obvious flaws.
>>
>> [...]
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> case "`uname`" in
> 	Linux   ) echo "Don't fear the penguin."     ;;
> 	CYGWIN* ) echo "Don't fear the hippos!"      ;;
> 	FreeBSD ) echo "This is Unix. I know this."  ;; 
> 	*       ) echo "God just killed a kitten."   ;;
> esac
> 
> FWIW, you may want to consider doing the same to your .bashrc, etc.
> files.  I can't imagine, for example, such things as aliases on a
> Windows+Cygwin system being useful across platforms.
> 

Dang.  Don't forget about Netbsd or Openbsd.

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