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authorKen Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>2010-07-27 15:50:01 -0400
committerKen Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>2010-07-27 15:50:01 -0400
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* PROBLEMS: Mention problem with Cygwin 1.5.19.
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@@ -2482,6 +2482,14 @@ files are installed. Then use:
As of Emacs 22.1, there have been stability problems with Cygwin
builds of Emacs using GCC 3. Cygwin users are advised to use GCC 4.
+*** Building Emacs 23.3 and later will fail under Cygwin 1.5.19
+
+This is a consequence of a change to src/dired.c on 2010-07-27. The
+issue is that Cygwin 1.5.19 did not have d_ino in 'struct dirent'.
+See
+
+ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-07/msg01266.html
+
*** Building the native MS-Windows port fails due to unresolved externals
The linker error messages look like this: