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RE: [Fwd: cygwin-xemacs sometimes hangs in compile with latest cygwin]


It used to be the case that using pty's required you to put

CYGWIN=tty

in your environment. You might want to try that. Or did I suggest
that already? Is this on Win98?

andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Lipp [mailto:michael.lipp@Danet.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 12:19 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Cc: Andy Piper
> Subject: [Fwd: cygwin-xemacs sometimes hangs in compile with latest
> cygwin]
> 
> 
> I got very few responses - obviously I'm quite alone with this problem.
> 
> None of the responses solved the problem. However, looking at possible 
> options, I found that changing subprocess communication from pty to 
> pipes ("(setq process-connection-type nil)") fixes things.
> 
> I don't know if XEmacs has some special pty code for cygwin which would 
> explain this. But to me it's a strong indication that there is still a 
> problem in the cygwin pty code.
> 
>   - Michael
> 

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