cygcheck feature request: cygwin1.dll build info

Warren Young wyml@etr-usa.com
Mon Jul 18 15:46:00 GMT 2016


While examining someone’s checkcheck -rsv output, I failed to find a simple statement telling me which word size the DLL was built for.

I was able to puzzle it out based on hints in the file, such as that “cygwin32” packages means he has the 32-bit cross-compile toolchain, which means it’s a 64-bit install, but what if those packages weren’t installed?

There’s a section where cygcheck gives info about the Cygwin DLL itself.  It would be nice to see a word size declaration, or a config.guess string, or…
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