Problems with the new Cygwin-1.5.23-1

[Eric Lilja]

Corinna Vinschen skrev:
> On Dec 19 22:19, Eric Lilja wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen skrev:
>>> On Dec 19 20:19, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
>>>> After installing Cygwin-1.5.23-1, I have tried to build Emacs-CVS.
>>>>
>>>> But the build fails as shown below. The failure DOES NOT happen
>>>> using/reinstalling Cygwin-1.5.22-1 (i.e. the prev).
>>>> [...]
>>>> /usr/bin/../lib/libg.a(lib_a-fwrite.o):(.text+0x49): undefined reference
>>>> to `___cygwin_lock_lock'
>>> This is a packaging bug in 1.5.23-1.  For now you can fix it after
>>> installing 1.5.23-1 like this:
>>>
>>>  $ cd /usr/lib
>>>  $ rm libg.a
>>>  $ ln -s libcygwin.a libg.a
>>>
>> How come I was not hit by it? Maybe a difference in the steps to build 
>> cvs emacs or something else?
> 
> A difference in configuring maybe, which doesn't try to link to libg.a.

Right, I noticed my configure script I wrote long ago actually specifies 
--no-cygwin. I don't want to put cygwin1.dll in the path seen by windows 
and I dont want my emacs build to depend on cygwin. Sorry for the noise!

> 
> 
> Corinna
> 

- Eric


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