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Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:02:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Sam Steingold <sds AT gnu DOT org>
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Subject: Re: package _version_ check
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On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Sam Steingold wrote:

> how do I check that the installed package foo was built against cygwin
> 1.5 and not 1.3?

I doubt there's a utility that'd tell you that.  At a guess, if you only
want to distinguish between these two versions, you should be able to call
"strings" on an executable from the package and look at the bottom for
functions added in Cygwin 1.5, but that's only going to tell you if the
package is using new functionality or not.
	Igor
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