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[PATCH] Error out if with-file-notification=w32 is specified on cygwin

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19909: [PATCH] Error out if with-file-notification=w32
 is	specified on cygwin
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:19:16 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 10:47:36 +0100
>> 
>> It's a combination that won't compile, so it's probably best to error
>> out during configure.
>
> Why doesn't it compile?  Perhaps it's better to allow it to compile,
> than to error out.

I guess whoever put the following in w32.h had his reasons:

#ifdef CYGWIN
#error "w32.h is not compatible with Cygwin"
#endif


In file included from w32notify.c:95:0:
w32.h:23:2: error: #error "w32.h is not compatible with Cygwin"
 #error "w32.h is not compatible with Cygwin"
  ^
In file included from ../lib/sys/types.h:28:0,
                 from ../lib/signal.h:49,
                 from /usr/include/machine/setjmp.h:357,
                 from /usr/include/setjmp.h:10,
                 from lisp.h:24,
                 from w32notify.c:92:

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