> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:21:06 -0500 > From: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu> > CC: eliz at gnu dot org > > On 12/19/2008 3:27 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > I guess this is an ample opportunity to call for volunteers to come on > > board and help maintaining the Cygwin build of Emacs. As of now, the > > Cygwin build has some known ``stability issues'' (read: it sometimes > > crashes during the build or in routine operation), and there's no one > > on the Emacs development team who has enough knowledge and/or time to > > fix these Cygwin-specific problems. > > For the record, let me point out that it's been possible for several > months to build a stable emacs for cygwin using gcc-4. This was first > announced on this list by Angelo Graziosi [1].
Yes, Angelo deserves a lot of kudos for his efforts, but unfortunately much more is needed. For example, even though it is possible to build a Cygwin version now, if you are willing to install specific versions of development tools, the following entry from etc/PROBLEMS in the Emacs distribution would not sound very good to me if I were a Cygwin user who needs to decide whether to install Emacs: *** Building the Cygwin port for MS-Windows can fail with some GCC versions 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). Feel free to update this entry for recent versions of GCC, but personally I would stay away of a package that has problems with so many versions of the compiler. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
