[h-e-w] 23.0.60; cygwin1.dll dependency

[Stephan Mueller]

Using Lennart's patched Emacs.

 

I have a current Cygwin installation with many packages.  Note that I'm running

with cygwin 1.5 -- not the experimental 1.7:

 

[D:\Emacs\emacsw32-23.0\emacs\bin] cygcheck -c cygwin
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version        Status
cygwin               1.5.25-15      OK

 

When I attempt to launch patched emacs, it generates the following message
at the console prompt from which it was launched; while the emacs frame is
displayed, it is unusuable (program is non-responsive).

 

[D:\Emacs\emacsw32-23.0\emacs\bin] .\emacs.exe
    172 [main] ? (3944) D:\Emacs\emacsw32-23.0\emacs\bin\emacs.exe: *** fatal er
ror - Incompatible cygwin .dll -- incompatible per_process info 0 != 168

 

Renaming my copy of cygwin1.dll in the cygwin installation before starting
emacs suppresses the problem.

 

This behaviour did not occur with the previous Emacsw32 version I was using
(a build based on emacs 22).  Perhaps I didn't see it because the previous
emacs was compatible with the cygwin version I have?

 

Ideally, emacsw32 would not be bound to any particular version of cygwin,
so that it could be compatible with both current and experimental
installations.

 

Thanks.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2008-08-13 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched)
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags -Ic:/g/include'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  noticeable-minibuffer-prompts-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu>
<send-emacs-bug-report>

Recent messages:
Adding d:/Emacs/emacsw32-23.0/EmacsW32/lisp/ to load-path

stephan(speaking for myself, not for my employer);