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On 2025-11-09 12:44, Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote:
On 09/11/2025 16:02, Andrew Schulman via Cygwin wrote:
A message box shown when running an affected program directly from
cmd.exe reveals the problem: Entrypoint "argp_parse" is missing.
$ objdump -p /bin/cygargp-0.dll | grep argp_parse
[ 56] +base[ 57] 0038 rpl_argp_parse
Previous version:
$ objdump -p /bin/cygargp-0.dll | grep argp_parse
[ 24] +base[ 25] 0018 argp_parse
Current <argp.h> actually maps 'argp_parse' to 'rpl_argp_parse':
$ printf '#include <argp.h>\nargp_parse' | gcc -E -xc - | tail -1
rpl_argp_parse
$ grep -B1 rpl_argp_parse /usr/include/argp-config.h
/* Define to the name of argp_parse outside libc. */
#define argp_parse rpl_argp_parse
Good grief. Thanks Christian. So I see a few possible solutions to this:
(1) Recompile all of the Cygwin programs that use argp, so they call the new
entry point rpl_argp_parse, aliased from argp_parse. (I don't really want to
do this)
(2) Patch the gnulib source to make argp_parse a function that points to
rpl_argp_parse, instead of just a #define.
(3) File a bug report with the gnulib project and see if they'll fix it.
There are a few other possibilities, such as:
(4) If upstream really intends this to be an ABI break, bump the soversion to 1
in a new package libargp1 (and we'll keep the existing libargp (effectively
libargp0) around until stuff linking with it is rebuilt).
(5) If upstream thinks there isn't a stable ABI, stop providing a shared
library, only a static one in libargp-devel.
While I sort that out, I'm going to release another update that will revert to
the previous release. That should get everything working again for now.
Sorry for the trouble, everyone. This was a breaking ABI change and
unfortunately that meant that it passed all of our tests with newly compiled
code.
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher but when there is no more to cut
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