Attention Windows developers: do not upgrade Cygwin to version 3.5.0

[Andras Timar]

Hi Ilmari,

Thanks for the info. Although I have Cygwin 3.4.10, I still have a problem
with building help.
assertion "bc_ctl.arg_max >= LINE_MAX" failed: file
"/mnt/c/Users/bwi/src/cygwin/findutils/findutils-4.9.0-1.x86_64/src/findutils-4.9.0/xargs/xargs.c",
line 511, function: main
Has anyone seen this?

Thanks,
Andras

On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 12:30 PM Ilmari Lauhakangas <
ilmari.lauhakangas at libreoffice.org> wrote:

> Unfortunately Cygwin 3.5.0 has a change that causes LibreOffice builds
> to fail with messages like this:
>
> 321 [main] sh 1280 dofork: child 1288 - died waiting for dll loading,
> errno 11
>
> Please hold off on upgrading to Cygwin 3.5.0.
>
> If you have already installed Cygwin 3.5.0, run the Cygwin installer
> again. In the screen "Select Packages", change the version of the cygwin
> package from 3.5.0 to 3.4.10 and finish the installation.
>
> At this moment, the root cause of this problem is not known.
>
> Another important note about 3.5.0 is found on Cygwin's home page:
> "Cygwin 3.4.10 was the last Cygwin version supporting Windows 7, Windows
> 8, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012."
>
> Ilmari
>
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