--- Martin Boeker <boeker(a)sun11.ukl.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> Hello Rick,
>
> thank you. --pdump lets me build xemacs 21.5.16 without problems on Cygwin.
>
> I tried some different configuration options under Cygwin/WinXP and made
> following observations:
>
> (1) --debug=no --error-checking=none --pdump --use-kkcc build fine but
> resulted in a total crash of WinXP without bluescreen on loading files with
> xemac (reproducible total crash). Starting xemacs and loading plain text
> files worked fine, but in the moment I loaded an lisp or caml file the
> machine crashed.
>
> (1b) So I thought it would be --pdump or --use-kkcc, but changing these
> options resulted in OS-crash, too.
>
> (2) --debug=no --pdump --use-kkcc works fine, no errors; "stability" is
> achieved by error-checking (I think you made it the default because of that).
>
> Perhaps --pdump should be made default for Cygwin?
Martin,
Please keep the discussions on the list.
Yes, I think --pdump should be the default for Cygwin. Other than by submitting
a patch, however, I have no control over the default configuration (or anything
else, for that matter). Just an interested participant, like you.
I'll try to submit a patch for this in the next few days.
--Rick