git repositories for cygwin packaging - please test

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-06-04 10:01, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 5/27/2020 6:27 PM, Jon Turney wrote:
>> On 04/08/2019 21:08, Jon Turney wrote:
>>> To remedy this lack, using the same ssh key you use for sftp package upload,
>>> package maintainers can now also push to git repositories, like so:
>> Package maintainers may have noticed that the output from pushing to these git
>> repositories now includes a line like:
>> "remote: scallywag: build nnn queued"
>> This is a *prototype* of a system to automatically build the packages, where
>> the results appear (some time later) at [1] (URL subject to change)
>> [1] https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi

> This is great!  Thanks for doing this.  One strange thing I've noticed is that
> sometimes a package will build fine on x86_64 but will fail on x86 with an error
> like this:
> distutils.errors.CompileError: command 'gcc' terminated by signal 11
> make[4]: *** [/usr/share/gobject-introspection-1.0/Makefile.introspection:160:
> HarfBuzz-0.0.gir] Error 1
> Every time I've seen this, the build works fine on my local x86 install, so it's
> not a big deal.  But I'm curious what might cause this.

$ kill -l 11
SEGV

distutils bug?

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