> Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:02:25 -0400 (EDT)]: > 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.
shouldn't setup.exe refuse to install 1.5.3 unless all packages that use 1.3 are also upgraded? like RPM and apt-get at al do?! -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k <http://www.camera.org> <http://www.iris.org.il> <http://www.memri.org/> <http://www.mideasttruth.com/> <http://www.honestreporting.com> The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
