Re: Building Swarm under Cygnus. no good.

[pauljohn]

OK, I am checking it out now. configure with no special options warns me
that it the cygwin platform won't support target-libjava or
target-libffi. Does that mean gcj will not work, no matter what I do? IT
is compiling, I'll know in an hour or two if it works.

Even if I make this work, rebuilding gcc is probably "above and beyond"
for most beginning Cygnus users.

Suppose I step back for a minute and say, "I can get the gcc from the
cygnus people, 2.95.3, how can I compile just the gcc-objc part they
left out?"  DO you know the answer for that?  If I could pass out a
tar.gz with the required files...

I guess I could pass out a tarball with gcc-3.0 in it just as easily...

I noticed that one other thing about tcl/tk you mentioned about Cygnus. 
When swarm runs its configure, it warns that the release number in the
headers is 8.0.4 but in the library it is 8.0.2p, "not a good thing". 
That is a signal that the binary stuff they distribute does not come
from the headers they distribute, right?

Incidentally, for the last month or so, since I installed cygnus,
possibly even before that, bash is not working so well inside Emacs for
me.  The M-x shell brings up a shell, but very slowly, and command line
completion does not work and many commands take 5 or 10 seconds to
complete. I know bash is not at fault because I can use the Cygwin
terminal and everything is OK.  But inside Emacs 20.7, the shell is just
about unusable.  If you have any idea why this might happen, please let
me know (I have winNT4 service pack 5).


"Marcus G. Daniels" wrote:
> 
> I just heard a report on the gcc list that 3.0 does build given Cygwin
> 1.3.2.  Maybe it is just that the Cygwin include files in the Swarm
> distribution are dated.  (I suspect the bleeding edge CVS is broken in
> a more structural way based on the error message, though.)
> 

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