GNU bug report logs - #7127
DOC problem with out-of-tree builds; maybe Cygwin specific

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea <at> parhasard.net>

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:03:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 23.2

Done: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Cc: "7127 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <7127 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:07:44 -0400

Ken Brown wrote:

> This turns out not to be so easy.  That patch is intertwined with a
> lot of changes to the build system that were made only in the trunk,
> so there's no way to quickly test whether that patch is relevant to
> the present bug.

Would this have the same effect?

*** src/s/cygwin.h	2010-01-13 08:35:10 +0000
--- src/s/cygwin.h	2010-09-29 17:04:58 +0000
***************
*** 104,109 ****
--- 104,110 ----
  #define PENDING_OUTPUT_COUNT(FILE) ((FILE)->_p - (FILE)->_bf._base)
  #define SYSV_SYSTEM_DIR 1
  #define UNEXEC unexcw.o
+ #define START_FILES pre-crt0.o
  #define POSIX_SIGNALS 1
  #define LINKER $(CC)
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