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Re: git bisect view's use of DISPLAY environment variable in Cygwin

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HKHannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi>
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Oct 28, 2008, 23:26 UTC
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Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi> writes:
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> "Christian Couder" <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi> wrote:
>>> "Christian Couder" <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> We need at least a way to detect we are under Cygwin, because we won't
>> change the current behavior for all platforms.
>> Is checking for the CYGWIN environment variable enough?
>
> No, because it may not be set.  I would probably do it at compile
> time using __CYGWIN__ definition.  I don't know what's the status

Argh, I didn't realize git-bisect is a shell script. For detecting Cygwin in shell scripts I have tested if `uname` matches CYGWIN*. For detecting Windows I have tested if PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE is set. There may well be better ways.

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Hannu
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  1. Hannu KoivistoOct 28, 2008
  2. Christian CouderOct 28, 2008
  3. Hannu KoivistoOct 28, 2008
  4. Christian CouderOct 28, 2008
  5. Hannu KoivistoOct 28, 2008
  6. Hannu KoivistoOct 28, 2008
  7. Johannes SchindelinOct 29, 2008
  8. Hannu KoivistoOct 29, 2008

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