package _version_ check

[Lapo Luchini]

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Sam Steingold wrote:

| how do I check that the installed package foo was built against
| cygwin 1.5 and not 1.3?

"strings"ing and "grep"ing it for "64" should do the trick.

e.g. rsync-2.5.6-2 (1.5.x verisonm9 contains:

$ strings /usr/bin/rsync.exe | grep 64
_fopen64
_fstat64
_lseek64
_lstat64
_open64
_stat64
_fopen64
_fstat64
_lseek64
_lstat64
_open64
_stat64

while rsync-2.5.6-1 does not.

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