From: Ernie Rael <err@raelity.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Bug Report
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 22:29:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <73a0f2a6-750b-4464-a6b2-d813969b5a45@raelity.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <337301d81d37$7afda680$70f8f380$@gmail.com>
On 2/8/22 2:01 PM, julie77793@gmail.com wrote:
> 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.
>
And of course there's
$ uname -o
Cygwin
-ernie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-09 6:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-08 22:01 julie77793
2022-02-08 22:22 ` [EXTERNAL] " Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2022-02-09 1:46 ` CygwinPaltform Identification Brian Inglis
2022-02-09 4:13 ` julie77793
2022-02-09 6:07 ` Allen Hewes
2022-02-09 8:10 ` Cygwin Platform Identification Brian Inglis
2022-02-09 9:12 ` CygwinPaltform Identification Henry S. Thompson
2022-02-09 10:01 ` Cygwin Platform Identification Brian Inglis
2022-02-09 6:29 ` Ernie Rael [this message]
2022-02-09 16:24 ` Bug Report Bill Stewart
[not found] <CAJVfQ_gj3N5+j+NpJytcYqMnMVMj-_p=EuLKsZ7BwnYWNRMgJg@mail.gmail.com>
2023-09-06 22:20 ` bug report Asad Ali
2023-09-08 5:09 ` Brian Inglis
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-05 16:21 Bug report Kern Sibbald
2003-05-05 16:38 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-05-05 17:14 ` Kern Sibbald
2003-05-05 17:30 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-05-05 17:33 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-05-05 16:40 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-06-06 22:21 David L Wiltshire
[not found] <19980630141709.614.rocketmail@send101.yahoomail.com>
1998-07-01 8:02 ` Bug Report Ronald Pijnacker
[not found] ` <199807010655.IAA00527.cygnus.gnu-win32@surgery1.best.ms.philips.com>
1998-07-02 9:53 ` Christopher G. Faylor
1997-02-17 8:27 bug report p.a.c.tavares
1997-02-16 22:10 Sean McNeil
1997-02-13 1:21 Sergey Okhapkin
1997-02-12 16:36 Andres Takach
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