From 0b7889fc3322ea2a294aab4257544df06d87ad65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:21:24 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Revert 2010-06-26T12:01:31Z!eliz@gnu.org (fixed in emacs-23 branch). --- etc/ChangeLog | 4 ---- 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 - - * PROBLEMS: Update Cygwin-related info regarding GCC versions. - 2010-06-12 Glenn Morris * 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 -- 2.39.2