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31.0.50; Cygw32 build break

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From: Kazuhiro Ito <kzhr <at> d1.dion.ne.jp>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 75926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Subject: bug#75926: 31.0.50; Cygw32 build break
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:15:05 +0900

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> > > We should probably split w32-win.el into two parts, one loaded by both
> > > the native Windows and Cygw32 builds, the other only by the former.
> > > But I don't know enough about the Cygw32 build and it needs, and don't
> > > have Cygwin installed to build it in the first place, so I'm not the
> > > best person for doing that job.  Maybe Ken (CC'ed) has comments or
> > > suggestions on this.
> >
> > That sounds like a reasonable approach, but I don't have time to dig 
> > into it right now.  I don't actually know the innards of the Cygw32 
> > build very well.  I never use that build myself, and I only build it 
> > when someone asks me to test something.  Kazuhiro, are you interested in 
> > giving Eli's suggestion a try?  I have a feeling that you're more 
> > familiar with that part of the code than I am.
>
> Ping!  Kazuhiro, do you intend on giving this a try?|

Sorry for the late response.  I didn't have enough time and actually I
don't know Emacs internals well in any area.  I simply build Emacs for
testing elisp packages I maintain.  But I tried on it.
Please review.

-- 
Kazuhiro Ito

[0001-Avoid-defining-unneeded-variables-on-Cygw32.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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