Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Yadin Y. Goldschmidt" <yadin AT pitt DOT edu>
Subject: Re: 1.5.4-1: Problem with XEmacs, fonts, and subprocesses.
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:45:55 -0400
Lines: 72
Message-ID: <blv55o$j1d$1@sea.gmane.org>
References: <CFF3E15126A0EF4F96D9FABED7A40266715A49 AT mail DOT i DOT turbinegames DOT com><3F7F1883 DOT 4070809 AT urth DOT org> <f5bisn2snoo DOT fsf AT erasmus DOT inf DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk><Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 56 DOT 0310061051470 DOT 15176 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu><f5b7k3iqup0 DOT fsf AT erasmus DOT inf DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk><Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 56 DOT 0310061114310 DOT 15176 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> <f5bllrxpdi4 DOT fsf AT erasmus DOT inf DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk>
X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165

It is true that making a xemacs.bat file which contains
c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run.exe /bin/bash  -c
"/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-cygwin/xemacs"
makes XEmacs run correctly under cygwin 1.5.5. (Actually one needs to add a
line 'set cygwin=tty '
before that line if one does not already have it in the windows'
environment). Alternatively one can run it from rxvt.
By running correctly I mean nvoking secondary processes like opening a shell
or compiling a program.
However the bigger question is why XEmacs ran correctly before from its icon
on the desk and it does not run correctly now? It must be something that has
changed going from
cygwin 1.3.22 to 1.5 that prevents runnung this application from the dos
command line when it was compiled with cygwin. In 1.3.22 it ran flawlessly.
It seems that this change affects also some other applications. I wonder
also if once XEmacs is compiled with 1.5.5 it will also run from the dos
prompt or icon or not.
"Henry S. Thompson" <ht AT cogsci DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk> wrote in message
news:f5bllrxpdi4 DOT fsf AT erasmus DOT inf DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk...
> Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> >
> >> Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> writes:
> >>
> >> <snip/>
> >>
> >> >> If you're _really_ obsessive (like me :-( about launching from an
> >> >> icon, compile the following and point the icon at it.
> >> >>
> >> >> Hope this helps,
> >> >> ht
> >> >> [code snipped]
> >> >>    if (CreateProcess (NULL, "c:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash -c
\"/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-cygwin/xemacs -f gnuserv-start\"", &sec_attrs,
NULL, TRUE, 0,
> >> >>                       NULL, NULL, &start, &child))
> >> >
> >> > Ouch!  Why not simply point the shortcut at
'c:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -c
> >> > "/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-cygwin/xemacs -f gnuserv-start"'?
> >> >       Igor
> >>
> >> Because that produces an unsightly command window as well as the
> >> desired xemacs window.  That's what all the WinMain etc. stuff is
> >> there to defeat.
> >>
> >> ht
> >
> > Umm, yeah, ok, make that 'c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run.exe /bin/bash
> > --login -c "/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-cygwin/xemacs -f gnuserv-start"',
then.
> > :-D
> > Igor
>
> Ah, but I don't run X, just vanilla cygwin.
>
> See you and raise you again :-)
>
> ht
> -- 
>   Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of
Edinburgh
>                       Half-time member of W3C Team
>      2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440
>     Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht AT cogsci DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk
>      URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/
>  [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged
spam]
>




--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/