cmake suddenly stopped working

[Norton Allen]

On 11/18/2020 6:31 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
> On 18.11.2020 01:24, Norton Allen wrote:
>> Rolling back cmake from 3.17.3-2 to 3.14.5-1 seems to have resolved 
>> the problem.
>>
>> Any idea why no one else seems to be seeing this problem with 3.17.3-2?
>>
>
> I assume you had an incomplete upgrade.
>
> what is the output of "cygcheck cmake" ?

I rolled back forward to 3.17.3-2 and verified that 3.17.3-2 still shows 
the problem:

$ cygcheck cmake
Found: C:\cygwin64\bin\cmake.exe
C:\cygwin64\bin\cmake.exe
   C:\cygwin64\bin\cygwin1.dll
     C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
       C:\Program 
Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-rtlsupport-l1-1-0.dll
       C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
       C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNELBASE.dll
       C:\Program 
Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-0.dll
       C:\Program 
Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-1.dll
       C:\Program Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-heap-l1-1-0.dll
       C:\Program Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-memory-l1-1-0.dll
       C:\Program Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-handle-l1-1-0.dll
       C:\Program Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-1-0.dll
       C:\Program Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll
       C:\Program Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-file-l1-1-0.dll
       C:\Program Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-0.dll
       C:\Program 
Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-namedpipe-l1-1-0.dll
       C:\Program 
Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-datetime-l1-1-0.dll
       C:\Program 
Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-1-0.dll
       C:\Program 
Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-timezone-l1-1-0.dll
       C:\Program 
Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-0.dll
       C:\Program 
Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-processenvironment-l1-1-0.dll
       C:\Program Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-string-l1-1-0.dll
       C:\Program Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-debug-l1-1-0.dll
       C:\Program 
Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-errorhandling-l1-1-0.dll
       C:\Program Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-util-l1-1-0.dll
       C:\Program 
Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-profile-l1-1-0.dll
       C:\Program Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-file-l2-1-0.dll
       C:\Program 
Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-console-l1-1-0.dll
       C:\Program 
Files\OpenJDK\jdk-13\bin\api-ms-win-core-console-l1-2-0.dll
   C:\cygwin64\bin\cyggcc_s-seh-1.dll
   C:\cygwin64\bin\cygstdc++-6.dll
   C:\cygwin64\bin\cygarchive-13.dll
     C:\cygwin64\bin\cygbz2-1.dll
     C:\cygwin64\bin\cygiconv-2.dll
     C:\cygwin64\bin\cyglz4-1.dll
     C:\cygwin64\bin\cyglzma-5.dll
     C:\cygwin64\bin\cygnettle-6.dll
     C:\cygwin64\bin\cygxml2-2.dll
       C:\cygwin64\bin\cygz.dll
   C:\cygwin64\bin\cygcurl-4.dll
     C:\cygwin64\bin\cygbrotlidec-1.dll
       C:\cygwin64\bin\cygbrotlicommon-1.dll
     C:\cygwin64\bin\cygcrypto-1.1.dll
     C:\cygwin64\bin\cyggssapi_krb5-2.dll
       C:\cygwin64\bin\cygk5crypto-3.dll
         C:\cygwin64\bin\cygkrb5support-0.dll
           C:\cygwin64\bin\cygintl-8.dll
       C:\cygwin64\bin\cygkrb5-3.dll
         C:\cygwin64\bin\cygcom_err-2.dll
     C:\cygwin64\bin\cygidn2-0.dll
       C:\cygwin64\bin\cygunistring-2.dll
     C:\cygwin64\bin\cyglber-2-4-2.dll
     C:\cygwin64\bin\cygldap-2-4-2.dll
       C:\cygwin64\bin\cygcrypto-1.0.0.dll
       C:\cygwin64\bin\cygsasl2-3.dll
       C:\cygwin64\bin\cygssl-1.0.0.dll
     C:\cygwin64\bin\cygnghttp2-14.dll
     C:\cygwin64\bin\cygpsl-5.dll
     C:\cygwin64\bin\cygssh-4.dll
     C:\cygwin64\bin\cygssl-1.1.dll
   C:\cygwin64\bin\cygjsoncpp-24.dll
   C:\cygwin64\bin\cygrhash-0.dll
   C:\cygwin64\bin\cyguv-1.dll