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Eric Blake wrote:

> I'm starting to wonder if cygcheck chokes on the fact that
> cygreadline6.dll exists, but is missing the hook that /bin/sh version
> 3.0.x depended on.  Hmm, based on digging up an older build of bash from
> my archives, it looks like cygcheck is just fine with it, but trying to

Right, cygcheck just reads the import list of the PE file header, it
doesn't try to actually invoke the binary or resolve any symbols.

> execute it from bash just silently exits with status 57 (ie. missing dll
> dependency).  But so far, I can't reproduce a hang.

Maybe you need to reproduce the conditions under which setup spawns the
postinstall process.  This means CYGWIN=nontsec and stdin detached,
although I can't see how either of those would really conspire to cause
a hang.

Brian

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