On 6/23/2011 2:24 PM, John Kubiatowicz wrote:
On 6/23/2011 12:24 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
emacs-23.3-2 works fine for me with cygwin-1.7.9.
A program failing silently is often a sign of a missing DLL. Maybe
one of the dependencies of emacs didn't get installed. Try 'cygcheck
/usr/bin/emacs' and see if it reports anything missing.
Ken
But the complaint that I was getting was of the missing
_feinitialise(). And, the only thing I did to fix it was install
cygwin-1.7.8 dll...
I'm not near that machine now, but I will try what you suggest again
later. Perhaps it was 23.3-1 that had the problem, not 23.3-2. Since
both emacs' were failing silently, I assumed they both had the problem.
Note that one of the post-install scripts failed with 1.7.9 as well
(not with 1.7.8), so not really sure what is happening.
More info later,
--KUBI--
Ok. Now I'm thoroughly confused. All I did was install 1.7.9 cygwin
dll again. Emacs works. Must have been a different dll that wasn't
being installed. So, if this problem recurs, I'll run cygcheck.
Sorry for the apparent false alarm. Very weird.
The only thing that I can think of is that I may have upgraded from <
1.7.8 to 1.7.9 (i.e. upgraded past 1.7.8). So, perhaps I gained some
dll that I was otherwise missing by downgrading to exactly 1.7.8 then
back up to 1.7.9?
--KUBI--
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