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On 6/23/2011 2:46 PM, John Kubiatowicz wrote:
> There seems to be a problem with using the latest emacs and latest
> cygwin dll together.
>
> I updated my cygwin release yesterday in hopes of fixing the broken
> openssh/git problem (which wasn't fixed!).  However, in the process I
> lost emacs.
>
> Behavior: all versions of emacs currently available with the cygwin
> installer (i.e. 23.3-{1,2}) fail silently.
>
> Under slightly more investigation, it turns out that they were failing
> because of a missing routine: _feinitialise().
>
> A little investigation suggests to me that perhaps this routine got
> added to the 1.7.8 release and removed from the 1.7.9 release.  So, I
> backed out to 1.7.8 dll and emacs worked again.  I suspect that emacs
> needs to be recompiled to work with 1.7.9.

emacs-23.3-2 works fine for me with cygwin-1.7.9.

A program failing silently is often a sign of a missing DLL.  Maybe one 
of the dependencies of emacs didn't get installed.  Try 'cygcheck 
/usr/bin/emacs' and see if it reports anything missing.

Ken

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