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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2010-06-26 15:01:31 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2010-06-26 15:01:31 +0300 |
| commit | ebd70b0f80decda293ace1616b6915c804ebfa44 (patch) | |
| tree | a3402a710714493f164f672b3593bf1813a1caa9 | |
| parent | 3820f4296e2e9d397b9d1387db4b5199ba298d24 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-ebd70b0f80decda293ace1616b6915c804ebfa44.tar.gz | |
PROBLEMS: Update Cygwin-related info regarding GCC versions.
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2 files changed, 8 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog index 3e8adcb1b27..8019d1571de 100644 --- a/etc/ChangeLog +++ b/etc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-06-26 Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> + + * PROBLEMS: Update Cygwin-related info regarding GCC versions. + 2010-06-12 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> * tutorials/TUTORIAL.bg, tutorials/TUTORIAL.es: Fix typos. diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 8c6a37dbd45..e58ed454eba 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -2339,17 +2339,10 @@ files are installed. Then use: (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 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). +*** Building Emacs for Cygwin can fail with GCC 3.x + +As of Emacs 22.1, there have been stability problems with Cygwin +builds of Emacs using GCC 3.x. Cygwin users are advised to use GCC 4. *** Building the native MS-Windows port fails due to unresolved externals |