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Document problems with Cygwin builds of GCC 3.4.4.

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This results from a bug in a VERY old version of GNU Sed.  To solve
the problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun
Emacs's configure script.

*** Building the MS-Windows port with Cygwin GCC can fail.

Emacs may not build using recent Cygwin builds of GCC, such as Cygwin
version 1.1.8, using the default configure settings.  It appears to be
necessary to specify the -mwin32 flag when compiling, and define
__MSVCRT__, like so:

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This results from a bug in a VERY old version of GNU Sed.  To solve
the problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun
Emacs's configure script.

*** Building the Cygwin port for MS-Windows can fail with some GCC version

Building Emacs 22 with Cygwin builds of GCC 3.4.4-1 and 3.4.4-2 is
reported to either fail or cause Emacs to segfault at run time.  In
addition, the Cygwin GCC 3.4.4-2 has problems with generating debug
info.  Cygwin users are advised not to use these versions of GCC for
compiling Emacs.  GCC versions 4.0.3 and 4.1.1 reportedly build a
working Cygwin binary of Emacs, so we recommend these GCC versions.

*** Building the native MS-Windows port with Cygwin GCC can fail.

Emacs may not build using recent Cygwin builds of GCC, such as Cygwin
version 1.1.8, using the default configure settings.  It appears to be
necessary to specify the -mwin32 flag when compiling, and define
__MSVCRT__, like so: