#11246: flint-1.5.0.p5's extraneous #includes break typedef ulong in sys/types.h
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   Reporter:  dimpase              |          Owner:  tbd            
       Type:  defect               |         Status:  positive_review
   Priority:  major                |      Milestone:  sage-4.7.2     
  Component:  packages             |       Keywords:  cygwin         
Work_issues:                       |       Upstream:  N/A            
   Reviewer:  Karl-Dieter Crisman  |         Author:  Dima Pasechnik 
     Merged:                       |   Dependencies:                 
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Comment(by kcrisman):

 >
 > > > I would if I only could, but I fortunately^TM^ lack suitable Windows
 versions to run a recent Cygwin on. ;-)
 > >
 > > Ah, another chicken-and-egg problem...
 >
 > Chicken and egg? So Sage on Cygwin will replace Windows, or is Microsoft
 going to rewrite it in Sage when the Cygwin port is ready?

 No, that Sage on Windows (Cygwin or otherwise) won't happen until we have
 enough Windows-adept users, but we are unlikely to have many of them until
 we have a good Sage on Windows that isn't a VM/VB solution, and so on.

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