Missing STDERR when running an old DOS program

Hello, I have a really old DOS program (a compiler, from about 1995) which I still need to use. When running this compiler in cygwin, no error messages are displayed. When I run this compiler from cmd.exe, error messages are displayed fine. I remember, my older cygwin installations displayed t

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Can't create symbolic links in child directories

This works: > touch a > ln -s a b This no longer works: > touch a > mkdir b > ln -s a b/c Error: ln: failed to create symbolic link 'b/c': No such file or directory My CYGWIN environment is also configured using "winsymlinks:nativestrict". I am running the following version (updated today):

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Is there benchmark data available for cmake+meson+ninja vs. make? Keith On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 2:50 PM Jon Turney wrote: > > The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: > > * ninja-1.9.0-1 > > Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed. It is designed to >

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