On 03/12/2022 16:19, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-fFDxGeQsSAIb1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org>
> 
> BUILD_REQUIRES is added verbatim to the build-depends: line in
> the *-src.hint file.  If the cygport file defines BUILD_REQUIRES
> with newlines, e. g.
> 
>    BUILD_REQUIRES="
>      a
>      b
>    "
> 
> The -src.hint file is broken.  Avoid this by filtering out any
> newline's from BUILD_REQUIRES before using it in the subsequent
> expression building the -src.hint file.

Thanks.

Attached is a patch I wrote taking a slightly more general approach.