From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Cygwin emacs - does it work?
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:55:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <489869F1.9030103@alice.it> (raw)
Lennart Borgman wrote:
> I just out of curiosity installed Cygwin Emacs. Now I am more curious about why this version of Emacs is there.
>
> For me nearly nothing works in this Emacs. For example typing C-c results in C-g. Trying to examine a variable results in the error message "Cannot open load file: pp". Trying to send a bug report I am told that Emacs can not load emacsbug. Etc.
>
> The about page says
>
>
> GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i686-pc-cygwin)
> of 2007-07-19 on HERRING
>
>
> Is there anyone to contact about this?
Which package have you installed?
In Cygwin the current version of Emacs is 21.2-13, instead 22.1 is in
the test section, i.e. it is an experimental package.
It is more than an year that it is there without being promoted to
current because people reported it crashes (see [1] and its replays).
The fact is that since version 22 Emacs is unstable when built with
gcc-3.4.4 (the current version on Cygwin) and its maintainer on Cygwin
is waiting for 4... series, with which it is enough stable. Perhaps this
explain why 22.2 isn't neither in test version.
Following [1], you can find other useful information.
Cheers,
Angelo.
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[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-07/msg00609.html
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-05 14:55 Angelo Graziosi [this message]
2008-08-05 15:08 ` Cygwin emacs - does it work? Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-05 21:26 ` Angelo Graziosi
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2008-08-05 13:53 Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-05 14:05 ` Miles Bader
2008-08-05 14:09 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-05 14:35 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
[not found] ` <48986930.2040107@harpegolden.net>
2008-08-05 15:04 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-07 11:24 ` Stephen Leake
2008-08-07 11:41 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-05 15:19 ` Eric Hanchrow
2008-08-05 15:25 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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