checking cyg version (was Re: GNU make losing jobserver tokens)

L A Walsh cygwin@tlinx.org
Tue Mar 22 19:38:34 GMT 2022





On 2022/03/21 08:09, Ken Brown wrote:
>
> For starters, is your Cygwin installation up to date?  Cygwin's internal 
> implementation of pipes was overhauled starting with cygwin-3.3.0.
>   
How does one check the version of cygwin?  I've updated cygwin files 
this year,
but if I use cygcheck -V, I only see cygwin-3.2, which looks to be from 
last year.

Is that they right way to check the cygwin version?

thanks!
-linda



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