From: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:05:20 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2012, #03; Tue, 13)
Message-ID: <50A53CF0.7040809@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <50A2B14C.9040608@web.de>

Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
>> * ml/cygwin-mingw-headers (2012-11-12) 1 commit
>>  - Update cygwin.c for new mingw-64 win32 api headers
>>
>>  Make git work on newer cygwin.
>>
>>  Will merge to 'next'.
> 
> (Sorry for late answer, I managed to test the original patch minutes before Peff merged it to pu)
> (And thanks for maintaining git)
> 
> Is everybody using cygwin happy with this?

I am still on cygwin 1.5.22 and quite happy that this patch does
not (seem) to cause any problems. ;-P

> I managed to compile on a fresh installed cygwin,
> but failed to compile under 1.7.7, see below.
> Is there a way we can achieve to compile git both under "old" and "new" cygwin 1.7 ?
> Or is this not worth the effort?

Did the cygwin project not bump an api version number somewhere?

ATB,
Ramsay Jones