Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 22:54:58 +0100 Message-ID: <9877-Fri27Jul2001225459+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.92 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mjcohen@acm.org Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Getting emacs under cygwin? In-Reply-To: <3B61DE9E.2AC9C63F@mediaone.net> References: <3B61DE9E.2AC9C63F@mediaone.net> On Friday 27 Jul 01, Martin Cohen writes: > I have just started playing with cygwin, and miss emacs. > > I downloaded GNU emacs from their site (20.7), unpacked it, > and tried to ./configure it. I got this: > > $ ./configure > loading cache ./config.cache > checking host system type... i586-pc-cygwin > configure: error: Emacs hasn't been ported to `i586-pc-cygwin' systems. > Check `etc/MACHINES' for recognized configuration names. > > What should I do? Subscribe to the ntemacs-users list if you want to port GNU emacs to cygwin. It's not easy, or it would have been done by now. > Or, is there a prebuilt emacs out there somewhere? Yes, in your favorite mirror of . You should be able to build xemacs OOTB, if that's of interest. You need this if you want 'xemacs -nw', because 'emacs -nw' doesn't work in a cygwin remote login window (e.g., from telnet or ssh). Hope this helps. Regards, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/