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Re: emacs 21.3 does work while 22.1 works: Why 21.3 is default in cygwin setup
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:48:38 -0700
- Subject: Re: emacs 21.3 does work while 22.1 works: Why 21.3 is default in cygwin setup
- References: <20080312002047.30351.qmail@web3304.mail.ogk.yahoo.co.jp>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> I have downdloded emacs-X11-21.2-13.tar.bz2 from
> ftp://mirror.nyi.net/cygwin/release/emacs/emacs-X11/
>
> There are two folders under usr
> usr/bin
> usr/share
>
> at usr/bin
> $ ls -l
> total 4584
> -rwx------+ 1 Tatsu none 0 Mar 23 2004 emacs-21.2.exe*
> -rwx------+ 1 Tatsu none 4694016 Mar 23 2004 emacs.exe*
>
> There are no emacs-X11 and the size of emacs-21.2.exe is zero.
> How can they work correctly?
Are you unpacking this .tar.bz2 with some kind of non-Cygwin utility
like winzip or winrar? That will give you a false sense of something
being broken because they don't understand links. emacs-21.2.exe is a
link in the tarball. If you view the contents of this tarball with "tar
jtvf" you will see:
-rwxr-xr-t jhpb/domain users 4350464 2004-03-22 12:59 usr/bin/emacs.exe
hrwxr-xr-t jhpb/domain users 0 2004-03-22 12:59
usr/bin/emacs-21.2.exe link to usr/bin/emacs.exe
hrwxr-xr-t jhpb/domain users 0 2004-03-22 12:59
usr/bin/emacs-nox.exe link to usr/bin/emacs.exe
So this is a red herring. I just installed the emacs and emacs-X11
21.2-13 packages with setup and both worked fine in console and X11
mode. I did have to replace cygreadline7.dll with an unrebased one but
that is a known issue.
> Perhaps an accident might happen to collapse the package of emacs-X11 for 21.2-13 on the cygwin root
> server.
> This is the truly happening now, please correct them by the maintainers team.
There's no need to be alarmist, the package is fine.
Brian
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