Hi Vadim, A test release of chere-1.4-2 has been uploaded. See... https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2025-August/012466.html
Your patches LGTM and I was able to apply them without issue, with one exception. The last hunk of patch 4 would not apply (to file 'xhere'). I believe this is because the original source file lacks a trailing newline on its last line (?!). I attempted to use a cygport hook to correct this file on its way into the build, but no luck. I ended up modifying the last hunk of your patch to affect 6 lines rather than 8.
As with cygutils, I still have work to do myself towards bringing chere's Cygwin package git repository up to date. This package has never had a repository hosted there, so I'm on a learning curve.
Thanks for your patches and again, apologies for the delay. ..mark
