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.PHONY: all directory clean size
-ifeq ($(OS), Windows_NT)
+# OS detection, adapted from https://gist.github.com/sighingnow/deee806603ec9274fd47
+DETECTED_OS :=
+ifeq ($(OS),Windows_NT)
+ DETECTED_OS = WINDOWS
+else
+ UNAME_S := $(shell uname -s)
+ ifeq ($(UNAME_S),Linux)
+ DETECTED_OS = LINUX
+ endif
+ ifeq ($(UNAME_S),Darwin)
+ DETECTED_OS = OSX
+ endif
+endif
+$(if ${VERBOSE},$(info OS detected: $(DETECTED_OS)))
+
MKDIR = gmkdir
else
MKDIR = mkdir