libargp package breaks getent utility Re: /usr/bin/getent no longer works in Windows 11

Sat Nov 8 12:40:09 GMT 2025

On Sat, 8 Nov 2025 13:31:34 +0100
Cedric Blancher wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Nov 2025 at 12:50, Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Good morning!
> >
> > /usr/bin/getent passwd and /usr/bin/getent group no longer yield any
> > output in the latest Cygwin 3.7-dev binaries.
> >
> > Something broke.
> >
> > I did some digging, and even /usr/bin/getent --help does not work
> > anymore. strace getent then reported that the function "argp_parse" is
> > missing in the binary.
> > Downgrading the package does not help.
>> Downgrading the libargp package solved the problem.

The same in Win10.
-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>