Re: On the rebasing problem of Emacs on Cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:29:28 +0100 (MET)
> From: Angelo Graziosi <address@hidden>
> cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> 
> I want to report the following, hoping it can be useful for other users of
> Emacs on Cygwin.
> 
> Usually, on Cygwin, one needs to rebase (the DLLs) if an application
> aborts with a message like this example:
> 
> -------------
> C:\cygwin\bin\python.exe: *** unable to remap C:\cygwin\bin\cygssl.dll to
> same address as parent(0xDF0000) != 0xE00000
> -------------
> 
> 
> But, since Cygwin DLL 1.5.17 was released, after the rebasing, Emacs
> hangs.
> 
> This happens for the current version 21.2-13 and the exp. ver. 21.3.50-2
> on Cygwin.
> 
> And also for Emacs-CVS.
> 
> 
> So I have found useful to build Emacs-CVS in this way
> ----------------------------------------------
> LDFLAGS='-Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base' \
> ../configure --prefix=/usr/local/emacs-cvs
> 
> make LD='$(CC)' bootstrap
> 
> make LD='$(CC)' install
> -----------------------------------------------
> 
> This makes Emacs independent of rebasing.

Thanks, I added a suitable entry to etc/PROBLEMS, describing the
problem and its solution, as you proposed.