From: Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:26:19 GMT
Subject: Re: git bisect view's use of DISPLAY environment variable in Cygwin
Message-ID: <83ej20cndw.fsf@kalahari.s2.org>
In-Reply-To: <83iqrccpmk.fsf@kalahari.s2.org>

Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi> writes:

> "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.

-- 
Hannu