proposal for GNU emacs 21.2 package

[Harold L Hunt II]

I would love to see GNU emacs running under Cygwin/XFree86, if you can 
actually package this and get it to work.

You have shown the intent, now show me a package :)

Harold


Joe Buehler wrote:
> I am proposing a new Cygwin package for GNU emacs 21.2, covering
> both X11 and non-X modes of operation.
> 
> Here is a proposed setup.hint file:
> 
> sdesc: "GNU emacs"
> category: Editors
> requires: cygwin
> ldesc: "Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting 
> real-time display editor."
> 
> Note that it depends on cygwin only, because the other dlls are shipped
> with it, in an emacs-private directory, because they must be rebased so 
> emacs will
> work properly.  This is due to the way that emacs represents pointers
> internally -- objects in the data segment must reside below 0x10000000,
> and this gets violated when the Windows loader relocates dlls.
> 
> Joe Buehler
>