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On Sat, 8 Nov 2025 12:50:58 +0100, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin
<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:

>Good morning!
>
>/usr/bin/getent passwd and /usr/bin/getent group no longer yield any
>output in the latest Cygwin 3.7-dev binaries.
>
>Something broke.
>
>I did some digging, and even /usr/bin/getent --help does not work
>anymore. strace getent then reported that the function "argp_parse" is
>missing in the binary.
>Downgrading the package does not help.
>
>$ uname -a
>CYGWIN_NT-10.0-26100 shelf01411 3.7.0-0.310.g55a3b588925f.x86_64
>2025-11-07 20:46 UTC x86_64 Cygwin

For the archive: Please downgrade your libargp package to the previous
release, 20230708-2. The 20250917-1 release has the problem. I'm working on a
fix. Andrew






















































































































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