issues with xemacs and cygwin

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I updated recently cygwin. My cygwin1.dll has the version :
> 1.5.25-cr-0x5f1, built on 2008-06-12 19:34.
> 
> I am running the latest available version of XEmacs for cygwin, "21.4
> (patch 21) "Educational Television" XEmacs Lucid" of Tuesday, Dec 4 2007 on
> vzell-de.
> 
> When I am running functions of xemacs which start external processes (for
> instance man, ssh, ...), I see often "fork, resource temporarily
> unavailable". I have a logitech camera, but I have stopped all its processes.

This is not always enough with <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA>.  I
recommend you try uninstalling as well.

> In the shell window from which I started xemacs, I see these messages
> when  an external process fails to start from xemacs :
> 
> 10850 [main] xemacs 7436 child_copy: linked dll data write copy failed,
> 0x3EB000..0x3EB440, done 0, windows pid 7408, Win32 error 487
> 
> I am not too sure what this means. Could this mean that a new build of
> xemacs would be required so that xemacs still fits together with the rest of
> cygwin ?

You can also try rebasing.  Rerun 'setup.exe' and install the "rebase"
package.  Follow its readme (in '/usr/share/doc/Cygwin') to rebase the
Cygwin DLLs you've installed.

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