On Thu, 1 Feb 2024 at 10:02, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > The behaviour changed in 2020 > > https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commitdiff;h=21ec498d7f912 > > not without a discussion > > https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-patches/2020q4/010870.html
Aha, thank you! (congrats on the 3.5 release, in passing, btw). Definitely not a regression, then (subject edited). However, this patch came from MSYS2, and subsequently they seem to have found it problematic for the same reason as me (https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime/pull/18#issuecomment-810897624) and have just recently reintroduced the flag (https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime/commit/7616b8a2e0ffcf068b47e1a66bbb1dbd7d9b5c50) to control it. The reasoning in https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2006-August/150081.html seems as valid now as it did in 2006. Is it possible to revisit having the flag, or even just reverting the behaviour? FWIW, it's been "hurting" us over in OCaml-land since zstd support was added roughly a year ago - configure can tell us that mingw-w64's zstd is available, but woe betide us if we run the test program to see if it actually works, but the user forgot to add the sys-root into PATH, because at that point the CI system is down... Thanks, David -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
