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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2010-06-26 15:21:24 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2010-06-26 15:21:24 +0300 |
| commit | 0b7889fc3322ea2a294aab4257544df06d87ad65 (patch) | |
| tree | 55cd988dd8a551cc650bec5a884d21b9583163a3 | |
| parent | b61dfbe20b281b3960be19896b44faf25d0e06d2 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-0b7889fc3322ea2a294aab4257544df06d87ad65.tar.gz | |
Revert 2010-06-26T12:01:31Z!eliz@gnu.org (fixed in emacs-23 branch).
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/PROBLEMS | 15 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog index 8019d1571de..3e8adcb1b27 100644 --- a/etc/ChangeLog +++ b/etc/ChangeLog @@ -1,7 +1,3 @@ -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 e58ed454eba..8c6a37dbd45 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -2339,10 +2339,17 @@ files are installed. Then use: (using the location of the 32-bit X libraries on your system). -*** 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 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 the native MS-Windows port fails due to unresolved externals |