Oops, Ben got there first. Oh well, here's a comment.

[originally from svn r3285]

diff --git a/Recipe b/Recipe
index cb6f1883d7307fab8f70fbce117cd1f175c4080f..51d2eded1bd4b5319cb4d5776eef49b9ddb0d718 100644 (file)
--- a/Recipe
+++ b/Recipe
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@
 #
 #  - COMPAT=/DNO_SECURITY
 #      Disables Pageant's use of <aclapi.h>, which is not available
-#      with some development environments. This means that Pageant
+#      with some development environments (such as older versions of
+#      the Cygwin/mingw GNU toolchain). This means that Pageant
 #      won't care about the local user ID of processes accessing it; a
 #      version of Pageant built with this option will therefore refuse
 #      to run under NT-series OSes on security grounds (although it