On Aug 27 16:32, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > >>>>> Corinna Vinschen writes: > > > On Aug 27 08:28, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > >> >>>>> Corinna Vinschen writes: > >> > >> > Btw., any chance for a 64 bit xemacs as well? > >> > >> Actually, I don't even have a 32bit version for cygwin 1.7 yet. The > >> subprocess support is somehow broken in 32bit 1.7 and 64bit. > > > I don't understand. You don't have a 32 bit version of Cygwin 1.7 and > > "subprocess support" is broken? What do you mean with "subprocess > > support"? > > Xemacs in the 32bit distro is the one which has been compiled when > cygwin 1.5 was current (years ago). When trying to build it under the > latest releases (32/64bit) the resulting executable is not able to call > subprocesses. For example starting a shell with > > M-x shell > > results in a hang.
Weird. So it kind of depends on the compiler it has been build with? Since the xemacs binary built under 1.5 works under 1.7, it's not exactly a 1.7 problem, afaiu. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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