Failed to compile project after updating from v5 to v6

[aregtech]

Description
The areg-sdk project uses Dependabot to automatically update workflow dependencies.

Dependabot created PR #562 to upgrade cygwin/cygwin-install-action from v5 to v6. However, after the update, the project build fails consistently across all 5 runners example run.

This failure did not occur with v5. The only prior issue observed at the end of builds was a warning:

The process 'C:\cygwin\bin\git.exe' failed with exit code 128

example run
This warning appears unrelated to the cygwin action.

Expected behavior
Upgrading from cygwin-install-action v5 to v6 should not introduce build failures.

[jon-turney]

Thanks for reporting this.

Huh, that's all very strange!

[  0%] Built target areg-dummy
gmake[2]: *** No rule to make target '/cygdrive/d/a/areg-sdk/areg-sdk/framework/areg/appbase/private/Application.cpp', needed by 'CMakeFiles/areg.dir/framework/areg/appbase/private/Application.cpp.o'.  Stop.
gmake[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:318: CMakeFiles/areg.dir/all] Error 2
gmake[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

I can only guess that the change to use D: by default is causing this problem (and the file its looking for here is installed by your workflow on C:?)

Maybe you could try adding work-vol: C: to the parameters passed to cygwin-install-action and see if that improves matters?

[aregtech]

@jon-turney

Maybe you could try adding work-vol: C: to the parameters passed to cygwin-install-action and see if that improves matters?

how to do that, can you please help me? I'm not much familiar configuring YAML.

This is my script in action workflow:

      - name: Install cygwin on Windows
        if: matrix.config.os == 'windows-2022' && matrix.config.family == 'cygwin'
        uses: cygwin/cygwin-install-action@master
        with:
          packages: cmake, dos2unix, flexdll, gcc-g++, git, libncurses-devel, make

This is the result I'm getting:

Run cygwin/cygwin-install-action@master
  with:
    packages: cmake, dos2unix, flexdll, gcc-g++, git, libncurses-devel, make
    platform: x86_64
    check-sig: true
    add-to-path: true
    allow-test-packages: false
    check-hash: true
    check-installer-sig: true
  env:
    BUILD_TYPE: Release
    JAVA_HOME: C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Java_Temurin-Hotspot_jre\17.0.17-10\x64
    JAVA_HOME_17_X64: C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Java_Temurin-Hotspot_jre\17.0.17-10\x64
    CACHE_DEST: ./product/cache/cygwin-g++
    BUILD_DEST: ./product/build/cygwin-g++/windows-64-amd64-release-shared
    INSTALL_DEST: ./product/install/cygwin-g++
    PATH: D:\cygwin;D:\cygwin\bin;D:\cygwin\lib;%SYSTEMROOT%\system32;%PATH%
Run $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
Signature status: Valid fingerprint: 2CE11DA3A675A9D631E06A28DDFD6F730B9CC6989B43BD30AD7CC79D219CF2BD
The downloaded file has the expected hash (0c3ed2733c7dc53a5a3fba38d2d0c542c6b17096defa4c3ed581a79f06c360f5abf58260496132cc8714a077f01c87342979469f6813ec471a55b54929d115cc)
Starting cygwin install, version 2.934
User has backup/restore rights
User has symlink creation right
io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/setup.rc) failed 2 No such file or directory
Current Directory: D:\cygwin-packages
root: D:\cygwin system
Changing gid to Administrators
Selected local directory: D:\cygwin-packages
net: Preconfig
site: http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/
io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/timestamp) failed 2 No such file or directory
io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/installed.db) failed 2 No such file or directory
solving: 46 tasks, update: no, use test packages: no
solving: 144 tasks, update: no, use test packages: no
Augmented Transaction List:
   0 install cygwin-devel             3.6.5-1                  
   1 install libpopt-common           1.19-1                   . 
............
............
............
running: D:\cygwin\bin\dash.exe "/etc/postinstall/0p_000_autorebase.dash"
running: D:\cygwin\bin\dash.exe "/etc/postinstall/0p_update-info-dir.dash"
running: D:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh"
running: D:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/coreutils.sh"
running: D:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh"
running: D:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh"
running: D:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/p11-kit.sh"
running: D:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/ca-certificates.sh"
running: D:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/crypto-policies.sh"
running: D:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/openssl.sh"
running: D:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/libxml2.sh"
can't run /etc/postinstall/openssl.sh: No such file
running: D:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/libsasl2_3.sh"
running: D:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/openssh.sh"
running: D:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/man-db.sh"
running: D:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/mintty.sh"
running: D:\cygwin\bin\dash.exe "/etc/postinstall/zp_man-db-update-index.dash"
Ending cygwin install
cmd : The term 'cmd' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the 
spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At D:\a\_temp\9efddcaf-3dfc-4896-a434-abba4a5b5579.ps1:157 char:3
+   cmd /c mklink /d C:\cygwin $installDir
+   ~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (cmd:String) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
 
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

Note, here PATH: D:\cygwin;D:\cygwin\bin;D:\cygwin\lib;%SYSTEMROOT%\system32;%PATH% I have changed the path D:\cygwin. In original version (in master branch) it is C:\cygwin
Also pay attention that the OS is windows-2022. Maybe it indeed does not have cmd.exe anymore?

[aregtech]

And now suddenly stopped working v5.

It fails to install cygwin:

logs:
logs_52706670738.zip

screenshot:

action workflow full url

[aregtech]

Fixed the the original problem by adding install-dir: 'C:\cygwin'

This now works fine:

      - name: Set Windows PATH environment variable
        if: matrix.config.os == 'windows-latest' && matrix.config.family == 'cygwin'
        run: echo "PATH=C:\cygwin;C:\cygwin\bin;C:\cygwin\lib;%SYSTEMROOT%\system32;%PATH%" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Encoding utf8 -Append

      - name: Install cygwin on Windows
        if: matrix.config.os == 'windows-latest' && matrix.config.family == 'cygwin'
        uses: cygwin/cygwin-install-action@v6
        with:
          packages: cmake, dos2unix, flexdll, gcc-g++, git, libncurses-devel, make
          install-dir: 'C:\cygwin'
          add-to-path: false
          work-vol: 'C:'

The v5 still fails.
Closing the ticket.