From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Building Emacs fails on Cygwin Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:23:35 +0900 Message-ID: <87r65fours.fsf@xemacs.org> References: <4919BF5D.80802@alice.it> <4919C77B.9050909@pajato.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226632736 1370 80.91.229.12 (14 Nov 2008 03:18:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:18:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Angelo Graziosi To: Paul Reilly Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 14 04:19:57 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L0pDw-0007Oy-CD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:19:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35364 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L0pCo-0002QL-92 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:18:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L0pCf-0002Nd-PE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:18:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L0pCf-0002NF-27 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:18:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36877 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L0pCe-0002N8-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:18:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:48656) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L0pCe-0004zX-EO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:18:36 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id A202B820D; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:18:35 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 66A611A2D5E; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:23:35 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <4919C77B.9050909@pajato.com> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" 83e35df20028+ XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:105682 Archived-At: Paul Reilly writes: > Seems to me that this is merely a short term fix until the next time > Emacs needs more heap. Is it impossible/impractical to find a mechanism > to determine how big this requirement should be at build time so the > problem can be solved forever? It's not impossible because XEmacs and SXEmacs do it. I don't know the code though so that's as far as I can help.