On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 06:04:40AM -0700, 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?
Quote from the bash 2.05 CHANGES file:
Bash no longer auto-exports HOSTNAME, HOSTTYPE, MACHTYPE, or OSTYPE,
even if it assigns them default values.
export OSTYPE in your profile will help.
Corinna
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