Attention Windows developers: do not upgrade Cygwin to version 3.5.0

[Andras Timar]

Hi Cloph,

On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 2:53 PM Christian Lohmaier <lohmaier at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Andras, *,
>
> On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 4:08 PM Andras Timar <timar74 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
>
> Not after cleaning up exports from download.lst and config_host.mk (
> https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/144217 and
> https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/144343 and related ones).
> Or in other words: lots of environment variables can cause trouble
> with command-length limits and xargs specifically.
>
> While that wasn't a problem for normal builds, CI also sets tons of
> additional variables from the gerrit trigger, so the daily build jobs
> that create full installsets for all langs/that also build help just
> unset a bunch:
> unset BUILD_CAUSE BUILD_CAUSE_MANUALTRIGGER BUILD_DISPLAY_NAME
> BUILD_ID BUILD_NUMBER BUILD_TAG BUILD_URL
> unset EXECUTOR_NUMBER HUDSON_HOME HUDSON_SERVER_COOKIE HUDSON_URL
> unset JENKINS_HOME JENKINS_SERVER_COOKIE JENKINS_URL JOB_BASE_NAME
> JOB_NAME JOB_URL LODE_NATIVE_HOME NODE_LABELS NODE_NAME
> NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS
> unset ORIGINAL_PATH ROOT_BUILD_CAUSE ROOT_BUILD_CAUSE_MANUALTRIGGER
> RUN_ARTIFACTS_DISPLAY_URL RUN_CHANGES_DISPLAY_URL RUN_DISPLAY_URL
> RUN_TESTS_DISPLAY_URL
> unset VS110COMNTOOLS VS120COMNTOOLS
>
> ciao
> Christian
>

Exactly, Jenkins adds a lot, also in my case there was a big fat
environment variable (2.5k) from Digicert.
Anyhow, my final take on this was
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/help/+/163117

Cheers,
Andras
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