Re: Version skew: Emacs 23.3-{1,2} vs cygwin1.dll/silent failure of emacs

2011-06-23 Thread John Kubiatowicz
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

Re: Version skew: Emacs 23.3-{1,2} vs cygwin1.dll/silent failure of emacs

2011-06-23 Thread John Kubiatowicz
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 th

Re: Version skew: Emacs 23.3-{1,2} vs cygwin1.dll/silent failure of emacs

2011-06-23 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/23/2011 2:46 PM, John Kubiatowicz wrote: There seems to be a problem with using the latest emacs and latest cygwin dll together. I updated my cygwin release yesterday in hopes of fixing the broken openssh/git problem (which wasn't fixed!). However, in the process I lost emacs. Behavior: a

Version skew: Emacs 23.3-{1,2} vs cygwin1.dll/silent failure of emacs

2011-06-23 Thread John Kubiatowicz
There seems to be a problem with using the latest emacs and latest cygwin dll together. I updated my cygwin release yesterday in hopes of fixing the broken openssh/git problem (which wasn't fixed!). However, in the process I lost emacs. Behavior: all versions of emacs currently available wi