please don't remove cygwin test releases too early

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Denis Excoffier!

> Today i was using cygwin-3.7.0-0.266… (found under /x86_64/release/cygwin,
> installed also the corresponding cygwin-doc and cygwin-devel) 
> and built the new GCC 15.2.0. Then i built many (about 100) GNU or
> not-so-GNU software with no errors at all until i found in tcl-9.0.2 
> that GCC returns with status 2 (i.e. not 0, not 1, not 4) for compilation
> of tclStubLib.o (and compilation fails). Similarly, same 
> return code (2) with fastcwd.o (and others, fastcwd is the first one) under winsup/cygwin/x86_64.

> Same with GCC 15.1.0. But this was surely not the case when i installed GCC 15.1.0 in April.
> Same with cygwin-3.7.0-0.277… (the more recent one).

> But not the same with cygwin-3.7.0-0.124... that i fetched on the 6th of
> June. In this case, compilation is ok (i checked with tcl only, not fastcwd.o).

> Then i started to bisect between cygwin-3.7.0-0.124… and cygwin-3.7.0-0.277…

> Unfortunately, cygwin-3.7.0 revisions from -124 to -246 are gone!

> Please don’t remove cygwin test releases too early.

If that's a critical issue for you, I suggest backing up setup.ini from the
local mirror under a timestamp after you've run the setup.exe to install the
software.

The packages themselves aren't removed from your drive.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, August 13, 2025 10:16:53

Sorry for my terrible english...