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| author | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> | 2009-12-09 01:07:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> | 2009-12-09 01:07:36 +0000 |
| commit | d6ab3832c7d61df89ba7e1c1d1ebfcb5e137d7c5 (patch) | |
| tree | 19b4959d22f07e064f2ab0332f58fcf2ba0e767f /etc | |
| parent | a4ef73c887614e05e4d0039419da0bcf1a073f00 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-d6ab3832c7d61df89ba7e1c1d1ebfcb5e137d7c5.tar.gz | |
Remove resolved GTK on Cygwin problem.
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| -rw-r--r-- | etc/PROBLEMS | 22 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 2c9c294c76a..c7384ad9a36 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -244,28 +244,6 @@ frame on another X display, then a Gtk+ error happens in the emacs server that results in an endless loop. This is not fixed in any known Gtk+ version (2.14.4 being current). -** Emacs compiled with Gtk+ crashes on startup on Cygwin. - -A typical error message is - ***MEMORY-ERROR***: emacs[5172]: GSlice: failed to allocate 504 bytes - (alignment: 512): Function not implemented - -Emacs supplies its own malloc, but glib (part of Gtk+) calls memalign and on -Cygwin, that becomes the Cygwin supplied memalign. As malloc is not the -Cygwin malloc, the Cygwin memalign always returns ENOSYS. - -One workaround is to set G_SLICE=always-malloc before starting emacs. -For example, in bash, - - G_SLICE=always-malloc emacs - -or put - - export G_SLICE=always-malloc - -in one of the bash startup files. This also has to be done before -building emacs on Cygwin with Gtk+. - * General runtime problems ** Lisp problems |