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Re: [ITA] bsflite: Minimalist console AIM client


On Aug 27 16:32, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> >>>>> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> 
>     > On Aug 27 08:28, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
>     >> >>>>> Corinna Vinschen writes:
>     >> 
>     >> > Btw., any chance for a 64 bit xemacs as well?
>     >> 
>     >> Actually, I don't even have a 32bit version for cygwin 1.7 yet. The
>     >> subprocess support is somehow broken in 32bit 1.7 and 64bit.
> 
>     > I don't understand.  You don't have a 32 bit version of Cygwin 1.7 and
>     > "subprocess support" is broken?  What do you mean with "subprocess
>     > support"?
> 
> Xemacs in the 32bit distro is the one which has been compiled when
> cygwin 1.5 was current (years ago). When trying to build it under the
> latest releases (32/64bit) the resulting executable is not able to call
> subprocesses. For example starting a shell with
> 
> M-x shell
> 
> results in a hang.

Weird.  So it kind of depends on the compiler it has been build with?
Since the xemacs binary built under 1.5 works under 1.7, it's not
exactly a 1.7 problem, afaiu.


Corinna

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