bash hangs on cygwin-3.5.5-1

[Takashi Yano]

On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 22:34:44 +0100
Bruno Haible wrote:
> This is not reproducible, but here's the report anyway:
> 
> I upgraded a Windows 10 system from Cygwin 3.5.3 to 3.5.5 today.
> Then ran the configure script of a tarball (*), and it hung:
> 
> $ mkdir build-cygwin64
> $ cd build-cygwin64
> $ ../configure --host=x86_64-pc-cygwin --prefix=/usr/local/cygwin64 CC=x86_64-pc-cygwin-gcc CXX=x86_64-pc-cygwin-g++ CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/cygwin64/include -Wall" LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/cygwin64/lib -C --with-included-libunistring 2>&1 | tee log1
> ...
> checking whether snprintf fully supports the 'n' directive... (cached) yes
> checking whether snprintf respects a size of 1... (cached) yes
> checking whether vsnprintf respects a zero size as in C99... (cached) yes
> checking whether btowc is declared without a macro... yes
> checking whether wctob is declared without a macro... yes
> checking whether mbsinit is declared without a macro... yes
> checking whether mbrtowc is declared without a macro... yes
> <hangs>
> 
> Typing Ctrl-C in said mintty window has no effect.
> 
> 
> (*) generated in a gnulib checkout on Linux, through
>     $ ./gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir=../testdir-all --with-c++-tests --without-privileged-tests --single-configure `./all-modules`

This may be the same issue with:
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-December/256954.html

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>