# HG changeset patch
# User Andrew Innes <andrewi@gnu.org>
# Date 981224772 0
# Node ID 1dd3524845ae51b76d8aff5ef8399dc590939e0d
# Parent  e3bd30e28be6525ede4d10ad0c8a1c6587278280
Add note about need to specify extra compiler flags
with recent Cygwin ports of gcc.

diff -r e3bd30e28be6 -r 1dd3524845ae etc/PROBLEMS
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Sat Feb 03 18:24:14 2001 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Sat Feb 03 18:26:12 2001 +0000
@@ -16,7 +16,16 @@
 Note that this problem does not pertain to the MS-Windows port of
 Emacs, since it doesn't use the preprocessor to generate Makefile's.
 
-* Building the Windows port with Leim fails in the `leim' directory.
+* 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:
+
+  configure --with-gcc --cflags -mwin32 --cflags -D__MSVCRT__
+
+* Building the MS-Windows port with Leim fails in the `leim' directory.
 
 The error message might be something like this: