Re: Building Emacs fails on Cygwin

[Paul Reilly]

Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
>
> > The bootstrap failed as shown below
>
> This has been discussed longly [1]. I think this is also related to
> recent discussion titled
>
>    "size of emacs executable after unicode merge".
>
> The solution is the patch below. Pre-built binaries here [2].
>
>
> ===============================
> --- sheap.c.orig        2008-05-14 14:56:07.000000000 +0200
> +++ sheap.c     2008-06-28 18:21:30.984375000 +0200
> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
>
>  #include <unistd.h>
>
> -#define STATIC_HEAP_SIZE       (12 * 1024 * 1024)
> +#define STATIC_HEAP_SIZE       (25 * 1024 * 1024)

Seems to me that this is merely a short term fix until the next time 
Emacs needs more heap.  Is it impossible/impractical to find a mechanism 
to determine how big this requirement should be at build time so the 
problem can be solved forever?  I'll plead guilty right up front to not 
having a clue on what the optimal long term answer might be.

And thanks for your help.  Much appreciated.

-pmr