Re: [h-e-w] cygwin-64 2.3.1. bash fails when running under FSF emacs 24.5
Ken Brown <[email protected]>
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On 11/27/2015 2:31 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 22:20:18 +0100 >> From: Dominique de Waleffe <[email protected]> >> >> So... started my homework... Got fresh w10 vm, put cygwin64 and both >> versions of emacs 24.4 and 24.5 from fsf ftp onto it.... >> >> And trying to start bash as shell fails under both versions! >> >> => I was mistaken in the origin of my instance of 24.4 (it must have >> come from another source, and I do not remember which).... >> It says: GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2014-10-21 on KAEL >> >> => both versions from fsf ftp appear to be compiled using mingw >> GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) of 2015-04-11 on LEG570 >> GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) of 2014-10-24 on LEG570 >> >> So the difference seems to be in the difference of mingw compilation mode. >> >> That's as far as I got tonight. Maybe someone has knowledge to share >> about the cause and what to do about this? > > I'd say this is somehow related to 64-bit Cygwin programs being run by > 32-bit native Windows programs. The version which works for you is a > 64-bit executable, those that don't are 32-bit. Just to follow up on this for the sake of the archives, Eli is correct (no surprise). The problem seems to be a result of recent changes to Windows 10, and Corinna is working on a fix. See https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-12/msg00003.html Ken