Version skew: Emacs 23.3-{1,2} vs cygwin1.dll/silent failure of emacs

[John Kubiatowicz]

On 6/23/2011 12:24 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>
> emacs-23.3-2 works fine for me with cygwin-1.7.9.
>
> A program failing silently is often a sign of a missing DLL.  Maybe
> one of the dependencies of emacs didn't get installed.  Try 'cygcheck
> /usr/bin/emacs' and see if it reports anything missing.
>
> Ken
But the complaint that I was getting was of the missing _feinitialise(). 
  And, the only thing I did to fix it was install cygwin-1.7.8 dll...

I'm not near that machine now, but I will try what you suggest again 
later.  Perhaps it was 23.3-1 that had the problem, not 23.3-2.  Since 
both emacs' were failing silently, I assumed they both had the problem.

Note that one of the post-install scripts failed with 1.7.9 as well (not 
with 1.7.8), so not really sure what is happening.

More info later,
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