Re: cygwin emacs gtk2 problem fix

["d.henman" <dhenman@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the confirmation that the fix works for you as well.

As to your question:
"> Now the question is: could that be done at level of source code?"

I am not familiar with the source code, though I did try something like the following in "../lisp/startup.el", thinking it might work.

Ideally I7d use the below (if (and ...)) structure, but I don't now how to determine the toolkit emacs was built with.  I simply wrote "x-toolkit" to illustrate.

(if (and (string= system-type "cygwin") (string= x-toolkit "gtk2"))
    	(setenv "G_SLICE" "always-malloc"))

but, since I don't know how to find the toolkit used I just used the below:
(if (string= system-type "cygwin")
    	(setenv "G_SLICE" "always-malloc"))

But, this did not work. emacs just crashed.  I guess startup.el is called after doing some processing with the toolkit.

Regards,
  Darel Henman


Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it> wrote:
> d.henman wrote:
> 
> > I have found a simple fix to for the cygwin emacs gtk2 problem,
> > as mentioned in the etc/PROBLEM file.
> > [...]
> >
> > +  $ export G_SLICE=always-malloc
> > +  $ emacs
> 
> Confirmed. It works just fine!
> 
> Now the question is: could that be done at level of source code?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
>    Angelo.