Hangs in cygwin 3.5.5-1: should 3.5.5-1 be rolled back?

Michael Soegtrop ml@michael-soegtrop.de
Mon Jan 20 09:48:55 GMT 2025


Dear Cygwin Team,

apparently there was a change in the test release (what I get when I run 
cygwin setup with --allow-test-packages) in the last few days. With the 
latest test release I see CI failures again with the same effect - make 
just hangs after finished builds.

Here is the version and pass/fail info:

Fail (2 failures seen in 4 runs) cygwin-devel 3.6.0-0.321.g23f4aac7e760

Pass (no failures seen in 12 runs) cygwin-devel 3.6.0-0.320.g1e6a3b39f1c6

Fail (failure rate about 60% in > 20 runs) cygwin-devel 3.5.5-1

I do plan a Coq Platform (a popular interactive theorem prover) release 
end of January, but I can't do this before cygwin is fixed. I trust that 
you get this done in time.

Best regards,

Michael


P.S.: While writing this I got in a daily build result with

cygwin-devel 3.6.0-0.327.gca22984cc4ad - this succeeded twice so far, 
which is inconclusive - I will run statistics on this.

You can find my CI results here:

https://github.com/coq/platform/actions

When a Windows build fails in there, this is usually the reason. The 
cygwin version used is shown in the logs.


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