OSTYPE not set in make?

[Christoph Höger]

Hi all,

I have to (really, I have - so please do not advise me to change to
autotools ;) ) work with a makefile which uses something like:

ifeq ($(OSTYPE),msys)
        ar cru $(MODEL) $(DEST)
        ranlib $(MODEL)
else
        $(LINKCMD) -o $(MODEL) $(DEST) $(LINKLIB)
endif

To build for different platforms. 

So far so "fine", but why is $OSTYPE empty? I have linux-gnu in my
shell?

(just wondering for the reason, the bug report will come anyway)

regards

Christoph

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