This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-developers@sourceware.cygnus.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Added cygwin version info to cygcheck.cc
- To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Added cygwin version info to cygcheck.cc
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 18:42:02 -0400
- References: <20000625221326.12037.qmail@web117.yahoomail.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 03:13:26PM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.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