Re: [PATCH] Makefile: fix cygwin build failure

From: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
Date: Nov 10, 2022, 20:35 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+kUOan=Dj4T7J57yJSg2Qh4+SQuCV0MOLKxQrZC6s1=ciOdNw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <0dec6e1e-207c-be13-ae95-294d9b1e8831@ramsayjones.plus.com>

On Wed, 9 Nov 2022 at 22:46, Ramsay Jones wrote:

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> [1] After a cygwin update, '/usr/bin/msgfmt.exe' refused to run, saying
> that it could not locate the 'cygunistring-5.dll' file. Using cygcheck,
> I found that this dll is provided by the 'libunistring5 1.1-1' package.
> After installing this package, everything works just fine.
>
> I don't know how package dependencies are specified/updated, but it
> would seem the 'gettext-devel' package has a direct or indirect
> dependency on the 'libunistring5' package. Looking at my setup.log file
> I would guess one-or-more of the following packages needs an update to
> note this dependency: 'gettext-devel 0.21.1-1', 'gettext 0.21.1-1',
> 'libgettextpo0 0.21.1-1', 'libintl-devel 0.21.1-1', 'libintl8 0.21.1-1',
> or 'libasprintf0 0.21.1-1'.
>
> Unfortunately, I am not subscribed to the cygwin mailinglist :(

It looks like this was broken by an update to some of these packages a couple of weeks ago[0]; I've reproduced the problem and reported it to the mailing list[1], so the package maintainer should be able to update the dependency information :)

[0]: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2022-October/010764.html [1]: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-November/252445.html