From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: Version 1.8.1 does not compile on Cygwin 1.7.14 Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 04:09:17 -0800 Message-ID: <20130106120917.GC22081@elie.Belkin> References: <2491041.bQ51Qu8HcA@thunderbird> <1890551.8jTmplCF6O@thunderbird> <50E92675.4010907@web.de> <20130106093211.GB10956@elie.Belkin> <50E946EB.1000709@web.de> <20130106095757.GC10956@elie.Belkin> <50E9647F.4090209@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Torsten =?utf-8?Q?B=C3=B6gershausen?= , Stephen & Linda Smith , Jason Pyeron , git@vger.kernel.org, Eric Blake To: Mark Levedahl X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 06 13:09:47 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Trp2s-0006RP-VV for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:09:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751997Ab3AFMJY (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jan 2013 07:09:24 -0500 Received: from mail-da0-f50.google.com ([209.85.210.50]:42540 "EHLO mail-da0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751823Ab3AFMJX (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jan 2013 07:09:23 -0500 Received: by mail-da0-f50.google.com with SMTP id h15so8236490dan.9 for ; Sun, 06 Jan 2013 04:09:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=QMLQKphCUEjY/ZIAb4oagT/M3BRSiDzYc0WNs0LNnjQ=; b=AkW4YbQT6RQF8N5yo6g3iDpaebwJanngnkF5kybdsHg+FELBq2DKZfa6t9xmVxsKSA foppAW9msUXg6NArHPENnymM/ftTbZFj4G+sv9OSjompAkYtJJzCBmV+J4lRAxEX5Lnq ZVXRLBiYZaubqQbRAk4pFlEK757c7s04ItqLI7EdqgIWuzG+gd6OXu9/gKAQn9ThJ/U/ Tf4v4O2ucFABHfQAqhD8Z8hcnBwLHyM/hIMmuzkMZ1cG8mPFhszB8GlZtW/SedroHxS/ Ht+lJw9dmynGaHm6ZSuvPr75Fon124Q6rtI5OcyXsJti9QSSONavonk5kBgHyuz/5v6H gCPw== X-Received: by 10.66.86.71 with SMTP id n7mr169304922paz.77.1357474162992; Sun, 06 Jan 2013 04:09:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from elie.Belkin (c-67-180-61-129.hsd1.ca.comcast.net. [67.180.61.129]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id jv1sm30424452pbc.36.2013.01.06.04.09.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 06 Jan 2013 04:09:21 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50E9647F.4090209@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21+51 (9e756d1adb76) (2011-07-01) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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.)