changeset 109692:58882317bf04

* PROBLEMS: Mention problem with Cygwin 1.5.19.
author Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
date Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:50:01 -0400
parents fc06750bcd9d
children ea5dcd4a779a
files etc/ChangeLog etc/PROBLEMS
diffstat 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/ChangeLog	Tue Jul 27 07:10:48 2010 -0400
+++ b/etc/ChangeLog	Tue Jul 27 15:50:01 2010 -0400
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2010-07-27  Ken Brown  <kbrown@cornell.edu>
+
+	* PROBLEMS: Mention problem with Cygwin 1.5.19.
+
 2010-06-19  Ken Brown  <kbrown@cornell.edu>
 
 	* PROBLEMS: Update Cygwin GCC information.  (Bug#6458)
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Tue Jul 27 07:10:48 2010 -0400
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Tue Jul 27 15:50:01 2010 -0400
@@ -2482,6 +2482,14 @@
 As of Emacs 22.1, there have been stability problems with Cygwin
 builds of Emacs using GCC 3.  Cygwin users are advised to use GCC 4.
 
+*** Building Emacs 23.3 and later will fail under Cygwin 1.5.19
+
+This is a consequence of a change to src/dired.c on 2010-07-27.  The
+issue is that Cygwin 1.5.19 did not have d_ino in 'struct dirent'.
+See
+
+  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-07/msg01266.html
+
 *** Building the native MS-Windows port fails due to unresolved externals
 
 The linker error messages look like this: