update on python refreshing

[Marco Atzeri]

On 23.05.2020 10:48, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> As I am blocked on the python update,
> I would like to inform you about the issue
> 
> On i686 arch and only on that, in all versions
> 3.8.3 and 2.7.18 the sh.exe segfaults during configure
> 
> The logs on 3.8.3 and also rebuilding 3.8.2
> -------------------------------------------
> checking for use_env... yes
> configure: checking for device files
> checking for /dev/ptmx... yes
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> *** ERROR: make failed
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> on 2.7.18:
> -------------------------------------------
> checking for /dev/ptmx... yes
> checking for /dev/ptc... no
> checking for %lld and %llu printf() format support... make: *** No 
> targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> ESC[1;31m*** ERROR:ESC[0;0m make failed
>       15 [main] sh 6354 D:\cygwin32\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error in 
> forked process - WFSO timed out after longjmp
>    80937 [main] sh 6354 cygwin_exception::open_stackdumpfile: Dumping 
> stack trace to sh.exe.stackdump
> -------------------------------------------
> In one of the 3 cases no stack dump is produced, while for the other
> two I have:
> 
> $ cat sh.exe.stackdump
> Stack trace:
> Frame     Function  Args
> 006DC078  61084F28 (00000000, 77BE6DD2, 00777E68, 00770000)
> 
>   $ cat sh.exe.stackdump
> Stack trace:
> Frame     Function  Args
> 006DC438  61084F28 (00000148, 00000000, 00000000, 00000018)
> End of stack trace
> 
> $ addr2line.exe -a 61084F28 -e /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll
> 0x61084f28
> /usr/src/debug/cygwin-3.1.4-1/winsup/cygwin/fork.cc:650
> 
> 
> As 3.8.2 was built before, it seems a recent change in Cygwin
> is impacting the 32bit platform.
> 
> 
> It seems I forgot the announce, but last build was 10th of April
> https://cygwin.com/packages/x86/python38/python38-3.8.2-1
> 
> so I will try to bisect Cygwin to see when this problem arose.
> 
> Crossing finger
> Marco
> 

It seems I was lucky, current git does not have the problem
so I was able to build both 3.8.3 and 2.7.18
without any need for a bisect.

Give me some time for the packaging and I will update both

Regards
Marco