bug#7127: 23.2; M-x help throws an error

[Glenn Morris]

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)