Re: UWIN?

[Jacob Peck <gatesphere@gmail.com>]

On 6/14/2013 4:14 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Jacob Peck wrote:
>> On 6/14/2013 3:05 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>> Now that Jacob mentioned it: I didn't think of the fact that one might
>> not necessarily need special cygwin binaries to run ConTeXt in cygwin.
>> If a simple modification in first-setup.sh and setuptex can do the
>> job, feel free to suggest the change (platform detection).
>>
>> My changes were simple - I used the setuptex file that came with standalone,
>> and tweaked it ever so slightly.
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/gatesphere/0afaf5c2c647430ff653
> So basically all you did was replacing platform detection with
>      platform="mswin"
> and commented out three lines of code that notify about the change?
> (Did you just find those lines annoying or did they actually fail to
> work?)
I just found them annoying - precisely because they worked :p
> Just curious: what does
>      uname -s
>      uname -m
> return on cygwin or what is the best way to detect windows in "shell"?
> (I believe that should be easy enough.)
$ uname -s; uname -m; uname -o
CYGWIN_NT-5.1
i686
Cygwin

You could test if `uname -s` starts with "CYGWIN", or if `uname -o` 
equals "Cygwin"... another way is to check $OSTYPE:

$ echo $OSTYPE
cygwin

>> Save that as .setuptex in ~ (home directory) then add the line
>>
>> source /home/PeckJ/.setuptex /cygdrive/c/context/tex
>> to .bashrc, and you should be good to go.
> In that case I would use
>      export PATH=/cygdrive/c/context/tex/texm-mswin/bin:$PATH
> instead, but of course it's your choice.
Is that all the script does?  I've never read it completely, just 
tweaked it until it worked.

Ah well, my setup works just fine :)

-->Jake
> Mojca
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