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On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 03:13:26PM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: >--- Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote: >> I just checked in a change that adds cygwin version info to cygcheck >> output. When cygcheck finds a DLL named "cygwin1.dll" it attempts to >> read version info from the file. If it fails then nothing is printed. >> Otherwise the output looks like this: >> >> 6494k 2000/06/25 f:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll >> Cygwin DLL version info: >> dll major: 1001 >> dll minor: 3 >> dll epoch: 19 >> dll bad signal mask: 19005 >> dll old termios: 5 >> api major: 0 >> api minor: 22 >> shared data: 3 >> dll identifier: cygwin1 >> mount registry: 2 >> cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions >> cygwin registry name: Cygwin >> program options name: Program Options >> cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2 >> build date: Sat Jun 24 20:46:08 EDT 2000 >> shared id: cygwin1S3-2000-06-24 20:46 >> > >This looks great. I'm wondering if it is possible to add something to identify >an official Cygnus release versus a local build? It would be nice to know if >someone has potentially modified the source of the dll locally. Good idea. FWIW, an official Cygnus release (the CD or GNUpro release) will have a "CVS Tag" with an identifying string. A snapshot will have a "snapshot date". I think I'll have to add something for the next cygwin release, like a "release date" or something. cgf
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