Re: GSlice problem with emacs Gtk+ build

2009-12-07 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/7/2009 2:13 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 07/12/2009 10:06, Ken Brown wrote: There's a known workaround, which is to set G_SLICE=always-malloc before starting emacs. As emacs maintainer, I've been reluctant to provide the Gtk+ version of emacs, because I don't want to answer hundreds of

Re: GSlice problem with emacs Gtk+ build

2009-12-07 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 07/12/2009 10:06, Ken Brown wrote: There's a known workaround, which is to set G_SLICE=always-malloc before starting emacs. As emacs maintainer, I've been reluctant to provide the Gtk+ version of emacs, because I don't want to answer hundreds of emails telling people about the workaround. I co

GSlice problem with emacs Gtk+ build

2009-12-07 Thread Ken Brown
There's been a longstanding problem with emacs if it is configured to use Gtk+ in Cygwin. The relevant threads begin here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/threads.html#00823 http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-02/threads.html#00469 http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-02/threads.html#00503