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charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit etc/PROBLEMS contains obsolete information about building Emacs for Cygwin. The attached patch brings it up to date. Please apply. [The diff was made against the emacs-23 version of etc/PROBLEMS, but it should eventually be applied to both emacs-23 and the trunk.] --------------060802000304060204070601 Content-Type: text/plain; name="PROBLEMS.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="PROBLEMS.patch" --- PROBLEMS.orig 2010-05-03 07:07:58.000000000 -0400 +++ PROBLEMS 2010-06-18 14:47:17.593750000 -0400 @@ -2477,17 +2477,10 @@ (using the location of the 32-bit X libraries on your system). -*** Building the Cygwin port for MS-Windows can fail with some GCC versions +*** Building Emacs for Cygwin can fail with GCC 3 -Building Emacs 22 with Cygwin builds of GCC 3.4.4-1 and 3.4.4-2 is -reported to either fail or cause Emacs to segfault at run time. In -addition, the Cygwin GCC 3.4.4-2 has problems with generating debug -info. Cygwin users are advised not to use these versions of GCC for -compiling Emacs. GCC versions 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.1.1, and 4.1.2 -reportedly build a working Cygwin binary of Emacs, so we recommend -these GCC versions. Note that these versions of GCC, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, -4.1.1, and 4.1.2, are currently the _only_ versions known to succeed -in building Emacs (as of v22.1). +As of Emacs 22.1, there have been stability problems with Cygwin +builds of Emacs using GCC 3. Cygwin users are advised to use GCC 4. *** Building the native MS-Windows port fails due to unresolved externals --------------060802000304060204070601--