Re: emacs snapshot tarball test build

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "djh" <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:10:36 +0900
> 
> I was asked to try out building a snapshot tarball on cygwin and have just 
> finished.

Thanks.

> Install did not complete successfully, but did install a workable newly built 
> emacs.
> 
> The only problem is shown below (and maybe it is not a real problem).
> 
> --------
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/leim'
> cd lib-src; make maybe-blessmail  \
>           MAKE='make' archlibdir='/libexec/emacs/22.0.95/i686-pc-cygwin'
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/lib-src'
> ../src/emacs -batch --no-site-file --multibyte -l 
> /usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/lib-src/../lisp/mail/blessmail.el
> Fatal error (6)make[1]: *** [blessmail] Aborted (core dumped)
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/lib-src'
> make: *** [blessmail] Error 2

To me, this looks as an evidence that the Emacs binary you built is
unreliable.  So I think we should not yet add GCC 4.1.3 to the the 3
safe versions of Cygwin GCC mentioned in PROBLEMS.

Thanks for working on this.