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This isn't for Cygwin, we use it everywhere during
make install
. It's to replace strings to hardcoded paths in binaries. It just has a limited history with the current file name, it used to be called stringpatch but Windows does funny things with admin rights and 32-bit executables that have "patch" or "install" in their names. Here's the history of the file at its old name: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commits/b42d5807cfbae15e520dcf23c3eff32addb3e437/contrib/stringpatch.c