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Document problems with rebasing Cygwin DLLs.

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you proceed to type another non-modifier key before you let go of Alt
and Shift, the Alt and Shift act as modifiers in the usual way.  A
more permanent work around is to change it to another key combination,
or disable it in the keyboard control panel.

** Interrupting Cygwin port of Bash from Emacs doesn't work.

Cygwin 1.x builds of the ported Bash cannot be interrupted from the
MS-Windows version of Emacs.  This is due to some change in the Bash
port or in the Cygwin library which apparently make Bash ignore the

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you proceed to type another non-modifier key before you let go of Alt
and Shift, the Alt and Shift act as modifiers in the usual way.  A
more permanent work around is to change it to another key combination,
or disable it in the keyboard control panel.

** Cygwin build of Emacs hangs after rebasing Cygwin DLLs

Usually, on Cygwin, one needs to rebase the DLLs if an application
aborts with a message like this:

  C:\cygwin\bin\python.exe: *** unable to remap C:\cygwin\bin\cygssl.dll to
  same address as parent(0xDF0000) != 0xE00000

However, since Cygwin DLL 1.5.17 was released, after such rebasing,
Emacs hangs.

This was reported to happen for Emacs 21.2 and also for the pretest of
Emacs 22.1 on Cygwin.

To work around this, build Emacs like this:

  LDFLAGS='-Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base' ./configure
  make LD='$(CC)'
  make LD='$(CC)' install

This produces an Emacs binary that is independent of rebasing.

Note that you _must_ use LD='$(CC)' in the last two commands above, to
prevent GCC from passing the "--image-base 0x20000000" option to the
linker, which is what it does by default.  That option produces an
Emacs binary with the base address 0x20000000, which will cause Emacs
to hang after Cygwin DLLs are rebased.

** Interrupting Cygwin port of Bash from Emacs doesn't work.

Cygwin 1.x builds of the ported Bash cannot be interrupted from the
MS-Windows version of Emacs.  This is due to some change in the Bash
port or in the Cygwin library which apparently make Bash ignore the