libargp package breaks getent utility Re: /usr/bin/getent no longer works in Windows 11

[Andrew Schulman]

On Sat, 8 Nov 2025 13:31:34 +0100, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin
<cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 8 Nov 2025 at 12:50, Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.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.
>
>Downgrading the libargp package solved the problem.

Ugh. Sorry gang. I just updated libargp. Let me see what I can figure out.
Meanwhile as you say, downgrading libargp should fix it. Andrew