Re: Emacs problem after rebaseall: some progresses?

[Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>]

Angelo Graziosi wrote:

> as the title of this mail says, it is Emacs (21.2-13, 21.3.50-2, started
> from X), NOT XEmacs (21.4.17-1, 21.5.16-1), that has problems after
> rebasing all the system.

Fine, Emacs, XEmacs, whatever.  That's not the point....

> The problem.
> ------------
> There are applications that need rebasing (... unable to remap...). But
> after rebasing all, Emacs does not show its window and take almost 100% of
> CPU (one can only kill it). If one reinstall libncurses7-5.3-4, Emacs
> works again as it should.  
>
> For what I know, Emacs is the only X application that has this problem.

And, is it the only X application that links against an obsolete version 
of the ncurses library?  e.g. is it simply that cygncurses-7.dll cannot 
be rebased without causing troubles for client apps -- and 
cygncurses-8.dll, used by all other X apps, is fine?

The *E*macs maintainer should relink/rebuild *E*macs against 
cygncurses-8.dll, rebase, and see if the problem (e.g. the necessity of 
"undoing" the rebase of cygncurses-8.dll by reinstalling that package) 
remains.

If the new *E*macs works with a rebased cygncurses-8.dll, then the 
problem is solved: cygncurses-7.dll is broken, and if it weren't 
obsolete it should be fixed.  But, since it IS obsolete...

Now, if the *E*macs maintainer does all this and the problem remains -- 
after rebasing, *E*macs is broken unless cygncurses-8.dll is reinstalled 
-- THEN we'll have something to talk about.

--
Chuck

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