Hello Cygwin Team, My request is related to an issue I opened in the FLAC Github : https://github.com/xiph/flac/issues/861
After some investigations, the issue is related to the build release of the FLAC package provided by Cygwin : the man pages of flac(1) and metaflac(1) use the HYPHEN (U+2010 ) character instead of the HYPHEN-MINUS (U+002D) character. These two commands expect HYPHEN-MINUS character, so if you copy-paste the man page options in your terminal, it will fail. Example : flac ‐‐version will return an error : « can't open input file ‐‐version: No such file or directory », because of « ‐‐version » with HYPHEN copied-pasted from the man pages. The right string is « --version » with HYPHEN-MINUS (U+002D). Example : flac --version will return : « flac 1.5.0 » Please, feel free to read the issue in Github ( https://github.com/xiph/flac/issues/861 ) for more details, as it's easier to read code and quotes with the markdown formatting. This is a very pretty nasty kind of bug, because it's very difficult to distinguish HYPHEN-MINUS and HYPHEN in a terminal. It's also very difficult to figure out why the command has failed, as the « No such file or directory » is not the root cause of the problem. I think a new build release to fix this, would be very welcome. Thank you very much for your time and your great work. :) Kind regards, Vyncere. -- 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
