Re: Build failure on Cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: "Eric Hanchrow" <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> From: Eric Hanchrow <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:01:50 -0700
> 
> * Couldn't "configure" detect the gcc version, and fail if it finds
>   that we're using any of those bad gcc versions on Cygwin?  That
>   would have saved me and you time.

I'm not sure this is such a good idea, since the problems that cause
this could be fixed in the near future, and new GCC versions appear
much faster than Emacs releases.  We could be left with gratuitous
failures very soon.

> * Do I need to build gcc 4 myself from source?  It doesn't appear to
>   be available from Cygwin's setup program.

I hope someone who uses Cygwin, like Angelo Graziosi, can help you
here.