Re: Failure in building Emacs 23.0.50 on Cygwin

[Dan Nicolaescu]

"d.henman" <address@hidden> writes:

  > I confirm that I too, encounter the same problem reported by Angelo on 
cygwin
  > 
  > > term.o: In function `dissociate_if_controlling_tty':
  > > /tmp/emacs/src/term.c:3146: undefined reference to `_croak'
  > 
  > 
  > I believe, the problem is that "croak" is not being properly defined in the
  > "sysdep.c" file.  It is only manifested when trying to compile term.c which 
refers to croak.
  > 
  > How should one define "croak" in sysdep.c for "i686-pc-cygwin" to test this?
  >    Ref: config.log:Target: i686-pc-cygwin

IMO the question should be asked the other way: how do you avoid
references to "croak". 

Adjust preprocessor code in dissociate_if_controlling_tty so that
croak is not used. Whether that is enough to make cygwin work, I don't
know.