From 024681aa4de727cab9420183a5869f1732bad3be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ken Brown Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:34:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] * etc/PROBLEMS: Update Cygwin GCC information. (Bug#6458) --- etc/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ etc/PROBLEMS | 15 ++++----------- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog index 395c77b02d..d9ae36b7b2 100644 --- a/etc/ChangeLog +++ b/etc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-06-19 Ken Brown + + * PROBLEMS: Update Cygwin GCC information. (Bug#6458) + 2010-06-12 Glenn Morris * tutorials/TUTORIAL.bg, tutorials/TUTORIAL.es: Fix typos. diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index b3cda374c5..7a2cc56699 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -2477,17 +2477,10 @@ files are installed. Then use: (using the location of the 32-bit X libraries on your system). -*** Building the Cygwin port for MS-Windows can fail with some GCC versions - -Building Emacs 22 with Cygwin builds of GCC 3.4.4-1 and 3.4.4-2 is -reported to either fail or cause Emacs to segfault at run time. In -addition, the Cygwin GCC 3.4.4-2 has problems with generating debug -info. Cygwin users are advised not to use these versions of GCC for -compiling Emacs. GCC versions 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.1.1, and 4.1.2 -reportedly build a working Cygwin binary of Emacs, so we recommend -these GCC versions. Note that these versions of GCC, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, -4.1.1, and 4.1.2, are currently the _only_ versions known to succeed -in building Emacs (as of v22.1). +*** Building Emacs for Cygwin can fail with GCC 3 + +As of Emacs 22.1, there have been stability problems with Cygwin +builds of Emacs using GCC 3. Cygwin users are advised to use GCC 4. *** Building the native MS-Windows port fails due to unresolved externals -- 2.20.1