From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 12:09:17 GMT
Subject: Re: Version 1.8.1 does not compile on Cygwin 1.7.14
Message-ID: <20130106120917.GC22081@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <50E9647F.4090209@gmail.com>

Mark Levedahl wrote:

>                                                          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(For the future, if we wanted to diagnose an out-of-date win32api and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.)