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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:07:59 +0100
From: "Ronald Fischer" <ynnor AT mm DOT st>
To: "Ken Brown" <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu>, "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: BUG: exec format error: emacs
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I have now solved the problem by explicitly removing /usr/bin/emacs before re-installing it using Cygwin Setup. Now it indeed became a symlink (to /etc/alternatives/emacs).

Ronald

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020, at 17:16, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 1/17/2020 10:33 AM, Ronald Fischer wrote:
> > When trying to run `emacs`, I get
> > 
> >   (on zsh) : zsh: exec format error: emacs
> >   (on bash): bash: /usr/bin/emacs: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
> 
> Are you sure Cygwin's emacs is the first one in your path?  Cygwin's 
> /usr/bin/emacs should be a symlink:
> 
> $ ls -l /usr/bin/emacs
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 kbrown-admin None 23 2019-03-21 18:11 /usr/bin/emacs -> 
> /etc/alternatives/emacs*
> 
> Ken
> 
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