This happens because of bugs in Gtk+. Gtk+ 2.10 seems to be OK. See bug
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715.
-** Emacs compiled with Gtk+ crashes on startup on cygwin.
+** 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. A fix for this
+Cygwin, that becomes the Cygwin supplied memalign. As malloc is not the
+Cygwin malloc, the Cygwin memalign always returns ENOSYS. A fix for this
problem would be welcome.
* General runtime problems
(using the location of the 32-bit X libraries on your system).
-*** Building the Cygwin port for MS-Windows can fail with some GCC version
+*** 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