Cygwin emacs

Mark Harig idirectscm@aim.com
Tue Mar 11 15:20:00 GMT 2008


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Steffen,
>
> are you still with us?  A mail on the Cygwin ML(*) indicated that the
> latest Cygwin emacs release 22.1 is still in test.  The last message
> from you is from July 2007, so I'm a bit concerned that you just
> dropped off from Cygwin again.  Do you further maintain Cygwin emacs?
> If so, can we take 22.1 out of test or are you going to prepare a
> new release?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Corinna
>
>   
Steffen can speak more definitively about this, but back in July there 
were run-time problems
with the Cygwin version of Emacs 22.1.  The apparent cause of the 
problem(s) was that
Emacs was being built with gcc 3 instead of gcc 4, which is not 
available for Cygwin.  My
understanding of the hoped-for path to resolving this is:

   Resolve problems that are preventing a Cygwin gcc 4 ->
       Compile Emacs 22.1 with gcc 4 ->
             Test to determine whether the run-time problems have been 
resolved.




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