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Re: emacs No Longer Works After A Cygwin Upgrade


On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 04:36:09PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
>On 4/18/2011 4:30 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 04:27:18PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> On 4/18/2011 4:02 PM, marco atzeri wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Tim Daneliuk  wrote:
>>>>> This has happened the last few times I did an upgrade with setup.exe.
>>>>> emacs, emacs-nox, and emacs -nw will not start at all.  Xemacs works
>>>>> fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Previously, I was able to work around this by falling back to a
>>>>> previous version of emacs, but this too seems broken now.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ideas?
>>>>
>>>> http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>>>
>>> While we're waiting for a full problem report, I'll make my best guess:
>>>   The OP needs to run rebaseall.
>>
>> And possibly also a "cygcheck /usr/bin/emacs.exe" right?
>
>Yes, but without the ".exe".  (/usr/bin/emacs is a symlink that resolves 
>to either emacs-X11.exe or emacs-nox.exe.)

Ah, right.  In that case, it would probably be best to do:

cygcheck /usr/bin/emacs-X11.exe
cygcheck /usr/bin/emacs-nox.exe

I don't think cygcheck can resolve a symlink.

(I'm not near a Windows machine to test right now)

cgf

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