Re: Trunk bootstrap failure [Cygwin]

[Ken Brown]

On 7/7/2010 6:34 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:12:32 +0200
> > From: Angelo Graziosi<address@hidden>
> > CC: emacs<address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii<address@hidden>,
> >   Ken Brown<address@hidden>
> >
> > --- configure.orig      2010-07-02 11:27:38.000000000 +0200
> > +++ configure   2010-07-06 10:45:21.656250000 +0200
> > @@ -5864,7 +5864,7 @@
> >    case $opsys in
> >      cygwin )
> >        LIB_MATH=
> > -    START_FILES='ecrt0.o'
> > +    START_FILES='pre-crt0.o'
> >        ;;
> >      darwin )
> >        ## Adding -lm confuses the dynamic linker, so omit it.
> > --- cygwin.h.orig       2010-06-06 11:34:28.000000000 +0200
> > +++ cygwin.h    2010-07-07 10:24:22.625000000 +0200
> > @@ -112,5 +112,7 @@
> >       returns ENOSYS.  A workaround is to set G_SLICE=always-malloc. */
> >    #define G_SLICE_ALWAYS_MALLOC
> >
> > +#define TEXT_START      0x00400000
> > +
> >    /* arch-tag: 5ae7ba00-83b0-4ab3-806a-3e845779191b
> >       (do not change this comment) */
> > ============
> >
> > ...and Emacs (rev. 100739) bootstraps fine...
> >
> > But, are those patches the best solution? Are we sure that in the future
> > there will not pitfalls or drawbacks?
> >
> > Eli, Ken, have you comments and/or suggestions?
>
> Sorry, I don't know enough about the memory layout used by Cygwin and
> about its startup code to speak intelligently about this.

I'm afraid I don't have a clue either.

Ken