On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:32:55PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote: >Attn maintainers: >If package with dirent.d_type support is rebuild with new sys/dirent.h, >it is no longer backward compatible with older Cygwin releases. This >is IMO no problem for packages rebuild for 1.7.
We never guarantee this so this isn't a big deal. This happens every time we add a new function to the DLL. In fact, we should have bumped the api minor number in include/cygwin/version.h. I've just checked in a change which does that. cgf
