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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:50:01 -0500
From: "Robert Harris" <rs904c@...scape.net>
To: <john-users@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: RE: Cygwin builds finally work fine with --fork

I'll work on this soon.

-----Original Message-----
From: magnum [mailto:john.magnum@...hmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 11:59 AM
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [john-users] Cygwin builds finally work fine with --fork

On 2015-02-08 16:48, Rich Rumble wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 7:10 AM, magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com> wrote:
>> We seem to have nailed the problem with Cygwin builds using --fork. 
>> It was a deadlock in file locking (Cygwin bug) and we now use a 
>> different scheme that works fine.
> This is GREAT news! Thanks you  guys!
>> This applies to bleeding-jumbo on Github as of now. By the way I'm 
>> not aware of any public binary builds of 1.8.0-jumbo-1, not even an 
>> unofficial one. Perhaps this is a good time to make some (but using 
>> this latest code). Any volunteers?
> Robert Harris typically does a build every so often, and I see two 
> under custom builds for 1.8.0-j1 
> http://openwall.info/wiki/john/custom-builds (1-10-2015) I'm certainly 
> going to do a build today!
> -rich
> 

After regression testing there were some tweaks and bug fixes. You should probably use at least aa60b8bb.

magnum


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