On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Andy Moreton <andrewjmore...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed 17 Mar 2010, Troy Daniels wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Jason Rumney <jas...@gnu.org> wrote: > > > > A few ideas: > > 1) What is in your environment before running emacs ? > If it contains emacs_dir or any of the LANG variables then emacs > could get confused. Knowing what is in your PATH would be useful too. > > In the windows environment, neither is set. Under cygwin, LANG was set to C.UTF-8. Unsetting it had no effect. Under Windows, PATH is C:\Documents and Settings\udalrich>path PATH=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_18\bin;C:\Program Files\apache-ant-1.8.0\bin Under Cygwin, PATH is $ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDOWS:/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/c/Program Files/ATI Technologies/ATI Control Panel:/c/Program Files/QuickTime/QTSystem/:/c/Program Files/TortoiseSVN/bin:/c/Program Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_18/bin:/c/Program Files/apache-ant-1.8.0/bin:/usr/lib/lapack:/usr/share/emacs/emacs-23.1/bin /usr/share/emacs/emacs-23.1 is from a previous attempt at installing emacs. The directory does not exist anymore. 2) What anti-virus software are you using ? > Cygwin have a list of problematic tools (search the Cygwin list for > BLODA) and its possible that emacs is giving a false positive. > > Norton Security Scan 2.4.17.5. I have a Logitech web cam driver installed, but it doesn't appear to be running the service mentioned in the BLODA. Troy > Once you get emacs working ok directly from Windows, use > "cygstart ./runemacs" from a Cygwin shell. > > AndyM > > > >
