Re: Version 1.8.1 does not compile on Cygwin 1.7.14
- From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
- Date
- Jan 6, 2013, 12:09 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20130106120917.GC22081@elie.Belkin>
- In-Reply-To
- <50E9647F.4090209@gmail.com>
Mark Levedahl wrote:
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> However, the newer > win32api is provided only for the current cygwin release series, which can > be reliably identified by having dll version 1.7.x, while the older frozen > releases (dll versions 1.6.x from redhat, 1.5.x open source) still have the > older api as no updates are being made for the legacy version(s).
Ah. That makes sense, thanks.
(For the future, if we wanted to diagnose an out-of-date win32api and print a helpful message, I guess cygcheck would be the command to use.)