building on cygwin

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2012-10-15 19:08, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> My recommendation is to put a check into our configure script to 
> require a newer version of cygwin and disallow 1.5. This old 1.5 
> version has all kinds of problems, and granted newer sometimes means 
> newer unknown issues, in general the 1.7 release is a significantly 
> better product.

I'm not sure if I mailed about it here, but I added a check that the 
Cygwin release is 1.7. So that's an official build requirement now.

/Magnus