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

> 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.