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<0cde1aff-838d-d9d9-1ac7-192ae5291335 AT t-online DOT de> <25925dea-8233-4001-aa54-6c60c02b554b AT dronecode DOT org DOT uk> Organization: Systematic Software In-Reply-To: <25925dea-8233-4001-aa54-6c60c02b554b@dronecode.org.uk> X-Stat-Signature: sxgsnn38ijgb8iysi96qgkkbc5wi54iz X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout07 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 3EFA32002E X-Session-Marker: 427269616E2E496E676C69734053797374656D6174696353572E61622E6361 X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX18v4OKtQppOVonYdofcCSndOwTqvnIjpVo= X-HE-Tag: 1762719351-851895 X-HE-Meta: U2FsdGVkX1+lowrWKS94Qv4Hgd1pYhvAakfa6oAHXWyAZgEdSIw/0Uuk8MtTvhZqsX7PMgbE/IPZ90xvZwPJSOurPGrU8TXxXp+R16HuSLx57oa3JsWsOa/1QVxiBNwcySL5+vGJXBGWzmdOhxHOxbUyyKZ+xLlgYYBxc7V9JuUdH5fL94bo15gYfinzOA004LZ59WLop89+1ofYooOGi4003InBEdXMs/jFo7gf2qGYxUiFUNY+8okHa3bs9c1AJDkCZiLIilKrB++ttdM+vNLhr1Z8A4l3448OJlZxwPMufp376I/3Uo79plhDr3Ftsy8Y0bmtvZ05mCUjweGJgh1OezRZp4g0 X-BeenThere: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.30 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: Brian Inglis via Cygwin Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Cc: brian DOT inglis AT systematicsw DOT ab DOT ca Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" Errors-To: cygwin-bounces~archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com Sender: "Cygwin" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by delorie.com id 5A9KHVHC715060 Scallywag CI hung? No response to ssh ... jobs ... On 2025-11-09 12:44, Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote: > On 09/11/2025 16:02, Andrew Schulman via Cygwin wrote: >>> A message box shown when running an affected program directly from >>> cmd.exe reveals the problem: Entrypoint "argp_parse" is missing. >>> >>> $ objdump -p /bin/cygargp-0.dll | grep argp_parse >>> [ 56] +base[ 57] 0038 rpl_argp_parse >>> >>> Previous version: >>> >>> $ objdump -p /bin/cygargp-0.dll | grep argp_parse >>> [ 24] +base[ 25] 0018 argp_parse >>> >>> >>> Current actually maps 'argp_parse' to 'rpl_argp_parse': >>> >>> $ printf '#include \nargp_parse' | gcc -E -xc - | tail -1 >>> rpl_argp_parse >>> >>> $ grep -B1 rpl_argp_parse /usr/include/argp-config.h >>> /* Define to the name of argp_parse outside libc. */ >>> #define argp_parse rpl_argp_parse >> >> Good grief. Thanks Christian. So I see a few possible solutions to this: >> >> (1) Recompile all of the Cygwin programs that use argp, so they call the new >> entry point rpl_argp_parse, aliased from argp_parse. (I don't really want to >> do this) >> >> (2) Patch the gnulib source to make argp_parse a function that points to >> rpl_argp_parse, instead of just a #define. >> >> (3) File a bug report with the gnulib project and see if they'll fix it. > > There are a few other possibilities, such as: > > (4) If upstream really intends this to be an ABI break, bump the soversion to 1 > in a new package libargp1 (and we'll keep the existing libargp (effectively > libargp0) around until stuff linking with it is rebuilt). > > (5) If upstream thinks there isn't a stable ABI, stop providing a shared > library, only a static one in libargp-devel. > >> While I sort that out, I'm going to release another update that will revert to >> the previous release. That should get everything working again for now. >> >> Sorry for the trouble, everyone. This was a breaking ABI change and >> unfortunately that meant that it passed all of our tests with newly compiled >> code. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher but when there is no more to cut -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple