cygwin 3.6.0 vs. libbsd 0.11.7-3: -lbsd breaks setproctitle()

Wed Feb 19 21:12:43 GMT 2025

On Feb 19 16:37, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Feb 19 14:40, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Feb 19 14:25, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
> > > Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > So I think we rather shouldn't supply the libbsd version of
> > > > setproctitle_init/setproctitle anymore, as soon as cygwin 3.6.0 is
> > > > released.
> > > > 
> > > > What do you think?
> > > 
> > > Makes sense. But then existing programs already using the functions from
> > > cygbsd-0.dll would no longer start. Perhaps keep the symbols in the DLL only
> > > for some time?
> > 
> > Sure! The new version will just disable the header definitions but
> > still export the symbols for backward compat.
>> I just realized that this isn't sufficient. The link lib libbsd.dll.a
> must not export the symbol either.

I uploaded a 0.11.8-1 test package which fixes this issue. I'll
propagate it to non-test when 3.6.0 is released.
Thanks,
Corinna