sbsv2/raptor/notes/cygwin_1_7.txt
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Starting with Raptor 2.13.0, it is also possible to use Cygwin 1.7 instead of
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Cygwin 1.5. Some work was necessary to add support for Cygwin 1.7 due to a
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change in command line interface in some of the Cygwin tools.
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Due to this change in the command line interface, we have had to introduce the
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SBS_CYGWIN17 environment variable whose value should be the root directory of
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the Cygwin 1.7 installation. We hope this is temporary and that we can remove
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this at some point. The following bullet points indicate the order of
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precedence of the SBS_CYGWIN and SBS_CYGWIN17 environment variables.
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* SBS_CYGWIN set,   SBS_CYGWIN17 unset: assume Cygwin 1.5 is being used
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* SBS_CYGWIN set,   SBS_CYGWIN17 set:   assume Cygwin 1.7 is being used
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* SBS_CYGWIN unset, SBS_CYGWIN17 set:   assume Cygwin 1.7 is being used
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You will get errors if you set SBS_CYGWIN to be the root of a Cygwin 1.7
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installation directory and if SBS_CYGWIN17 is not defined correctly.