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author | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> | 2009-12-09 01:07:36 +0000 |
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committer | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> | 2009-12-09 01:07:36 +0000 |
commit | 3b5cd23f14fb0cb2665cb657a54e5d6c3c302d43 (patch) | |
tree | 0f0c8a355885f9792fdeb1be71e6dda6394e75ae /etc | |
parent | 748e39ec9f513cdd337d04b9efafced80ba1f3b0 (diff) | |
download | emacs-3b5cd23f14fb0cb2665cb657a54e5d6c3c302d43.tar.gz |
Remove resolved GTK on Cygwin problem.
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diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 2c9c294c76a..c7384ad9a36 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -244,28 +244,6 @@ frame on another X display, then a Gtk+ error happens in the emacs server that results in an endless loop. This is not fixed in any known Gtk+ version (2.14.4 being current). -** Emacs compiled with Gtk+ crashes on startup on Cygwin. - -A typical error message is - ***MEMORY-ERROR***: emacs[5172]: GSlice: failed to allocate 504 bytes - (alignment: 512): Function not implemented - -Emacs supplies its own malloc, but glib (part of Gtk+) calls memalign and on -Cygwin, that becomes the Cygwin supplied memalign. As malloc is not the -Cygwin malloc, the Cygwin memalign always returns ENOSYS. - -One workaround is to set G_SLICE=always-malloc before starting emacs. -For example, in bash, - - G_SLICE=always-malloc emacs - -or put - - export G_SLICE=always-malloc - -in one of the bash startup files. This also has to be done before -building emacs on Cygwin with Gtk+. - * General runtime problems ** Lisp problems |