Re: New emacs maintainer for cygwin

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 5/19/2009 10:14 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> --- origsrc/emacs-23.0.92/src/s/cygwin.h	2009-01-08 06:46:27.000000000 -0500
>> +++ src/emacs-23.0.92/src/s/cygwin.h	2009-05-17 11:40:55.812500000 -0400
>> @@ -108,8 +108,12 @@ along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <http
>>  /* force the emacs image to start high in memory, so dll relocation
>>     can put things in low memory without causing all sorts of grief for
>>     emacs lisp pointers */
>> -#define DATA_SEG_BITS 0x20000000
>> -#define LINKER $(CC) -Wl,--image-base,DATA_SEG_BITS
>> +/* but this can cause problems if the user later rebases; so I'm
>> +   changing it (KB) */
>> +
>> +/* #define DATA_SEG_BITS 0x20000000 */
>> +/* #define LINKER $(CC) -Wl,--image-base,DATA_SEG_BITS */
>> +#define LINKER $(CC)
> 
> If that can be used (which requires the use of USE_LSB_TAG), it's
> a better solution indeed.

Could you elaborate on this?  I don't know anything about USE_LSB_TAG. 
All I know is that I applied the patch and built emacs, and so far it 
seems to work fine.  But I only did this a day or two ago, so maybe a 
problem could still show up.  (Previously I've always used the 
workaround described in etc/PROBLEMS.)  Is there some test I should try 
to see if my build is OK?

Thanks.

Ken