# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 1162642281 0
# Node ID dde3145743e4388ca1b0a471e04bf6428e1e06f2
# Parent  4f7cb3d8f0b120f5172a3f7c53f20f615e3d5ecf
Document problems with Cygwin builds of GCC 3.4.4.

diff -r 4f7cb3d8f0b1 -r dde3145743e4 etc/PROBLEMS
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Sat Nov 04 12:00:20 2006 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Sat Nov 04 12:11:21 2006 +0000
@@ -2327,7 +2327,16 @@
 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.
+*** 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