Problems with the new Cygwin-1.5.23-1

[Eric Lilja]

Corinna Vinschen skrev:
> On Dec 19 20:19, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
>> After installing Cygwin-1.5.23-1, I have tried to build Emacs-CVS.
>>
>> But the build fails as shown below. The failure DOES NOT happen
>> using/reinstalling Cygwin-1.5.22-1 (i.e. the prev).
>> [...]
>> /usr/bin/../lib/libg.a(lib_a-fwrite.o):(.text+0x49): undefined reference
>> to `___cygwin_lock_lock'
> 
> This is a packaging bug in 1.5.23-1.  For now you can fix it after
> installing 1.5.23-1 like this:
> 
>   $ cd /usr/lib
>   $ rm libg.a
>   $ ln -s libcygwin.a libg.a
> 

How come I was not hit by it? Maybe a difference in the steps to build 
cvs emacs or something else?

> 
> Corinna
> 

- Eric


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