[Patch] Add dirent.d_type support to Cygwin 1.7 ?
Christopher Faylor
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Sat Nov 29 01:41:00 GMT 2008
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:32:55PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
>Attn maintainers:
>If package with dirent.d_type support is rebuild with new sys/dirent.h,
>it is no longer backward compatible with older Cygwin releases. This
>is IMO no problem for packages rebuild for 1.7.
We never guarantee this so this isn't a big deal. This happens every
time we add a new function to the DLL.
In fact, we should have bumped the api minor number in
include/cygwin/version.h. I've just checked in a change which does
that.
cgf
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