emacs 22.1 hangs

emacs 22.1 hangs

[Jim O'Leary]

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This occurs if you have cygwins libX11.dll in the path.

I dont understand why the windows version of emacs would try to load libX11
but if its there then the process freezes.

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Re: emacs 22.1 hangs

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 6/14/07, Jim O'Leary <jim.oleary@gmail.com> wrote:

> This occurs if you have cygwins libX11.dll in the path.
>
> I dont understand why the windows version of emacs would try to load libX11

Image support. I think libX11 was used by some old image libraries.

Did you compile your 22.1?

             Juanma

Re: emacs 22.1 hangs

[Jason Rumney]

Jim O'Leary wrote:
> This occurs if you have cygwins libX11.dll in the path.

More likely it is other libraries in the same directory that are causing
the problem (eg, image libraries). In general Cygwin libraries are not
compatible with non-Cygwin programs.

Cygwin gives the advice not to put the Cygwin directories on your system
PATH for exactly this reason.

Re: emacs 22.1 hangs

[Jason Rumney]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Jim O'Leary wrote:
>   
>> This occurs if you have cygwins libX11.dll in the path.
>>     
> Cygwin gives the advice not to put the Cygwin directories on your system
> PATH for exactly this reason

Actually, cygwin seem to have renamed all their libraries to cygX11.dll
etc, to avoid the problem.
What version of Cygwin are you using? Perhaps it will help to upgrade.