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On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:17:59PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:30:27PM -0400, Charles S. Wilson wrote: >>>Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>> >>>>The check_for_executable global is actually not used in 1.3.2. This >>>>was a 1.3.1 thing. It should eventually disappear. There is no need >>>>for a patch. >>> >>>!@%!@#$ >>> >>>So you're saying I need to produce an updated version of ncurses that >>>is compiled under 1.3.2 (so that it won't look for >>>check_for_executable), right? >> >>Binaries built with 1.3.1 will continue to work with 1.3.2 and beyond. >>I haven't given up on the backwards compatibility committment. > >Is that executable binary compatibility as well as object binary >compatibility? Won't object libraries need to be rebuilt with the new >version of the library? Nothing needs to be recompiled. The user should never notice the change. The only time this is an issue is if you are trying to use a 1.3.1 executable, object, or DLL with a < 1.3.1 cygwin1.dll or libcygwin.a. cgf
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