Re: Building Emacs fails on Cygwin

[Angelo Graziosi]

Paul Michael Reilly wrote:

> The bootstrap failed as shown below

This has been discussed longly [1]. I think this is also related to
recent discussion titled

   "size of emacs executable after unicode merge".

The solution is the patch below. Pre-built binaries here [2].


===============================
--- sheap.c.orig        2008-05-14 14:56:07.000000000 +0200
+++ sheap.c     2008-06-28 18:21:30.984375000 +0200
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@

 #include <unistd.h>

-#define STATIC_HEAP_SIZE       (12 * 1024 * 1024)
+#define STATIC_HEAP_SIZE       (25 * 1024 * 1024)

 int debug_sheap = 0;

@@ -40,9 +40,7 @@
   if (!bss_sbrk_ptr)
     {
       bss_sbrk_ptr = bss_sbrk_buffer;
-#ifdef CYGWIN
       sbrk (BLOCKSIZE);                /* force space for fork to work */
-#endif
     }

   if (!(int) request_size)
===============================


Cheers,
   Angelo.

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[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg00052.html
[2] http://www.webalice.it/angelo.graziosi/cygwin/emacs/Emacs.html

Facesti come quei che va di notte,
che porta il lume dietro e se' non giova,
ma dopo se' fa le persone dotte.

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