Re: Building without Emacs malloc, possible?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:48:12 +0100
> From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> vm-limit.o: In function `check_memory_limits':
> /home/jhd/src/emacs-22.0.93/src/vm-limit.c:185: undefined reference to 
> `___morecore'
> vm-limit.o: In function `memory_warnings':
> /home/jhd/src/emacs-22.0.93/src/vm-limit.c:259: undefined reference to 
> `___after_morecore_hook'
> 
> I see this in src/Makefile.in:
> 
> #ifdef CYGWIN
> /* Cygwin differs because of its unexec(). */
> otherobj= $(termcapobj) $(gmallocobj) $(rallocobj) lastfile.o vm-limit.o 
> $(allocaobj) $(widgetobj) $(LIBOBJS)
> #else
> otherobj= $(termcapobj) lastfile.o $(mallocobj) $(allocaobj) 
> $(widgetobj) $(LIBOBJS)
> #endif
> 
> so apparently the solution is more complex.

Yes, Makefile.in should probably use a different list of object files
when SYSTEM_MALLOC is used in the Cygwin build.

> Maybe we just should say that Gtk+ and cygwin is not possible?

I'm fine with that, since no one seems to care about the Cygwin build
enough to actively maintain it.

Thanks for working on this.