Add OSTYPE build-system variable, and use it

[ghc-hetmet.git] / mk / install.mk.in

diff --git a/mk/install.mk.in b/mk/install.mk.in
index b63ffe3..6d5f724 100644 (file)
--- a/mk/install.mk.in
+++ b/mk/install.mk.in
@@ -159,11 +159,13 @@ INSTALL_DIR     = $(INSTALL) -m 755 -d $(call MK_INSTALL_DEST,$1)
 # This causes problems for bindisttest/checkBinaries.sh which then
 # thinks that e.g. the userguide HTML files are binaries.
 #
-# We therefore use a /cygdrive path if we are on cygwin
-ifeq '$(shell cygpath "c:/" 2> /dev/null)' ''
-MK_INSTALL_DEST = $1
-else
+# We therefore use a /cygdrive path if we are on cygwin (only)
+#   (This will make a Cygwin build run slowly 
+#    becuase of all those shell invocations.)
+ifeq "$OSTYPE" "cygwin" 
 MK_INSTALL_DEST = "$(shell cygpath $1)"
+else
+MK_INSTALL_DEST = $1
 endif
 
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