Howto force winXP use cygwin "if test -n"

Tue Aug 28 03:16:00 GMT 2007

On 08/27/2007, Hugo Martin (Tourbillon Enterprises) wrote:
> Hello.
>> I need to use cygwin's "if" command, the ruby gem I need to install tries 
> to run "if test -n" in my winXP but the win32 "if" is used so it fails with 
> "-n was unexpected at this time".
>> Is it possible to force WinXP to use cygwin's "if"? c:\cygwin\bin is on 
> the PATH
>> Hugo
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>> If it's helpful here is the error:
>> c:\> gem install rmagick --include-dependencies 

Run the above from within bash?
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A: Yes.
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