On 02/26/2018 12:25 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 2/1/2018 12:21 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> +# if defined __CYGWIN__
>> +/* The 'environ' variable is defined in a DLL. Therefore its 
>> declaration needs
>> +   the '__declspec(dllimport)' attribute, but the system's 
>> <unistd.h> lacks it.
>> +   This leads to a link error on 64-bit Cygwin when the option
>> +   -Wl,--disable-auto-import is in use.  */
>> +_GL_EXTERN_C __declspec(dllimport) char **environ;
>> +# endif
>
> This breaks the build on 32-bit Cygwin.  The build fails as follows:
>
>   CCLD     make-docfile.exe
> /tmp/ccZciFa6.o: In function `main':
> /home/kbrown/src/emacs/i686/lib-src/../../master/lib-src/emacsclient.c:1740: 
> undefined reference to `_imp__environ'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> Bruno is aware of the issue; I first noticed it while building clisp 
> and reported it there.  But I thought I should report it here too in 
> case others bump into it. 

Thanks for the heads-up. Does the attached patch fix the problem for 
you? If so, I can install it until Bruno comes up with something better.