A Bug related to ImageTk in Python on Cygwin

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Tue Oct 19 13:41:00 GMT 2021


On 10/19/2021 6:11 AM, Friedrich Romstedt via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Some months ago (in August 2021) I tried using ImageTk in Python on
> Cygwin and stumbled over a dysfunction.  To help tracking down the
> issue I wrote up an HTML document and uploaded it to
> https://github.com/friedrichromstedt/bughunting-02.  There is a
> minimal Test Case included in this github repo.
> 
> I updated my whole Cygwin installation just this moment and found the
> behaviour unchanged with respect to what I've observed that time.
> 
> Any pointer would be very much appreciated.

This is a long shot, but I see that you use harfbuzz and freetype2.  An issue 
was just observed with the latest builds of those two packages:

   https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-October/249610.html

I'm in the process of rebuilding them.  Please try again once the rebuilds are 
announced (probably later today).

Ken


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