Re: Version 1.8.1 does not compile on Cygwin 1.7.14

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 6, 2013, 09:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20130106093211.GB10956@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <50E92675.4010907@web.de>

Hi,

Torsten Bögershausen wrote:

>> Stephen & Linda Smith wrote:

>>> git co 9fca6c && make all
>>> ...   The make errored out as before

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>>> git co 9fca6c^  && make all
>>> ... and this compiles to completion
>>>
>>> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 WINXPMACHINE 1.7.14(0.260/5/3) 2012-04-24 17:22 
>>> i686 Cygwin

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> You can either upgrade to cygwin 1.17 or higher.
> Or, if that is really not possible (because you are sitting on a production machine,
> where no changes are allowed),
>
> You can enable this in Makefile: 
> CYGWIN_V15_WIN32API = YesPlease

What I don't understand is why commit 9fca6c would have had any effect at all. Since 1.7.14 doesn't match /^1\.[1-6]\./, wouldn't the setting to avoid including <sys/stat.h> and <sys/errno.h> be unset both before and after that commit?

Stephen, what is the content of your config.mak?

Curious, Jonathan