> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 22:20:18 +0100 > From: Dominique de Waleffe <ddewale...@gmail.com> > > 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. Maybe there are compatibility issues vis-à-vis 64-bit Cygwin. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple