mingw64-x86_64-libidn2 is out-of-date, causes linking fail

mingw64-x86_64-libidn2 is out-of-date, causes linking fail

[Henry S. Thompson]

There's a version skew problem between the current gnutls (3.5.18)
and libidn2 (2.3.2) in mingw64-x86_64.  This tickles an old bug (see
e.g. this bug report [1]) at runtime, namely:

  entry point "_idn2_punycode_decode" could not be found in
  .../libgnutls-30.dlls-30.dll

Downgrading mingw64-x86_64-libidn2 from 2.3.2 (2021) to 2.0,4 (2017)
fixes the problem, but may or may not introduce other issues down the
line.

Any chance we could get an update to the mingw64-x86_64-gnutls
package?  I note that the libgnutls30 package is at 3.6.9, and gnutls
stable itself is at 3.6.16.

Thanks,

ht

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1683812
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Re: mingw64-x86_64-libidn2 is out-of-date, causes linking fail

[Brian Inglis]

On 2022-02-05 11:15, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> There's a version skew problem between the current gnutls (3.5.18)
> and libidn2 (2.3.2) in mingw64-x86_64.  This tickles an old bug (see
> e.g. this bug report [1]) at runtime, namely:
>    entry point "_idn2_punycode_decode" could not be found in
>    .../libgnutls-30.dlls-30.dll
> Downgrading mingw64-x86_64-libidn2 from 2.3.2 (2021) to 2.0,4 (2017)
> fixes the problem, but may or may not introduce other issues down the
> line.
> Any chance we could get an update to the mingw64-x86_64-gnutls
> package?  I note that the libgnutls30 package is at 3.6.9, and gnutls
> stable itself is at 3.6.16.
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1683812

It is currently ORPHANED so I had a look a year or so ago at getting 
base Cygwin gnutls up to date for htmldoc, wget/2 but found ORPHANED 
required dependency upgrades which had cygport build problems I couldn't 
address.

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