From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30477 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2011 06:45:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 30468 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Aug 2011 06:45:19 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FROM_LOCAL_NOVOWEL,HK_RANDOM_FROM,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lo.gmane.org (HELO lo.gmane.org) (80.91.229.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:45:06 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QnmFN-0000e0-9t for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:45:05 +0200 Received: from 81-188-7-152.sdsl.easynet.be ([81.188.7.152]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:45:05 +0200 Received: from wxhgmqzgwmuf by 81-188-7-152.sdsl.easynet.be with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:45:05 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Sebastien Vauban" Subject: Re: Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <80mxftljm3.fsf@somewhere.org> References: <80hb65b3ue.fsf@somewhere.org> <4E330E40.6080606@cs.umass.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Url: Under construction... X-Archive: encrypt User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (windows-nt) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-08/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 Hi Eliot, Eliot Moss wrote: > Another way to be portable is to have per-system files to set up some > environment variables and then uniform portable files that use them. You can > do that same thing *within* a file by writing conditionals or a case on the > result of uname. It's probably best to segregate per-system stuff in a > well-contained file or section of a file in this way ... Thanks for your answer. But the whole idea is to write something in a way that it must not be rewritten for the other system. Maybe it's just a dream. Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple