Re: Help: build emacs in cygwin

[William Xue]

On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:22:32 +0800, William Xue <address@hidden>  
wrote:

> On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:24:28 +0800, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > This shows the problem very clearly: for some reason, the command that
> > should have produced emacs.exe didn't run to completion, but rather
> > finished prematurely (a.k.a. crashed) after loading only a handful of
> > *.el files, the last one being mule-conf.el.
> >
> > The Cygwin build of Emacs is currently very troubled.  In particular,
> > only a few versions of GCC are known to produce a working binary.
> > Please see the entry in etc/PROBLEMS whose header is "Building the
> > Cygwin port for MS-Windows can fail with some GCC version".  Also, you
> > will find a few discussions in the archives of this list about similar
> > problems that might help you find a solution.
>
> Thank you.
>
>   I have checked the file and it seems that I should upgrade the GCC to  
> 4.0 first.
>
> I will try the newest GCC release 4.0.1.2 first.

I have successfully updated the GCC to 4.0.1.2, but the problem is the  
same.

Maybe I should try a version mentioned in etc/PROBLEMS.

--
Sincerely yours,
William