Re: cygport expects package autoconf version integers but can have suffixes

On 2026-01-11 10:38, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 11/01/2026 06:38, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 2026-01-10 15:25, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>> On 2026-01-10 15:04, Jon Turney wrote:
>>>> On 10/01/2026 17:01, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> [...]
>>>
>>>>> some mitigation appears required as under mingw package build, stdout is 
>>>>> closed, and the rest of the compile log and subsequent logs do not appear: 
>>>>> see GH Scallywag job 10992 rerunning as 10994!
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, that seems like a secondary effect.
>>>>
>>>> Uh, I'm unclear what's happening there to make it hang there with no output, 
>>>> and can't immediately reproduce it locally.
>>>>
>>>> Do you have some more information which leads to the "stdout is closed" 
>>>> theory, or is that just speculation?
>>
>>> Only happens so far on mingw...gettext build and both times had same effect 
>>> but different amount of output in log (buffering amount) nearing end of 
>>> config, as also under GH Scallywag; I also run my own build log time stamper 
>>> so I can spot hangs during builds.
>>
>> A major difference between gettext and mingw builds is mingw does not run 
>> autoreconf, so the upstream scripts are used as is.
>>
>> On my local system, my timestamped package build process log stopped 
>> progressing, but .../log/...compile.log and other logs continued to be 
>> appended, so I could follow with xtail.
>>
>> Even defining AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.72 on GH Scallwag the process log still stops 
>> after creating config.status!
> 
> Yeah, this seems like something else is going on.
> 
> When I started a run using 'cygport --debug', there's nothing output by cygport 
> itself after the configure run is started.
> 
> So this makes me think that maybe configure is somehow getting into a spin and 
> never finishing? (Maybe you could confirm that by looking at what processes are 
> active when it hangs?)
> 
> I've tried a few adjustments to my environment, but I still can't reproduce this 
> locally.

Drat! I can no longer get a local failure any more!
With or *without* AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.72 ;^<

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