cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading

[Harold L Hunt II]

Igor,

> This (and the existence of CYGWIN_ROOT in your environment) is an artifact
> of using startxwin.bat.  Unless you have a default directory for the
> Cygwin root, you can't use that file OOTB -- you'll have to edit it and
> replace "\cygwin" with the value of your Cygwin root (in your case,
> "d:\ProgramFiles\Cygwin".
> 
>> CYGWIN_ROOT = `\cygwin'
> 

Well, you can always just set CYGWIN_ROOT to \ProgramFiles\Cygwin, with 
no leading drive letter and colon.  I think you probably knew that 
already...  I am still amazed at the number of times I have seen people 
go in and change \cygwin to c:\cygwin when they have problems... even 
after reading my comment immediately above it that describes why doing 
this is not necessary.  Sheesh, I thought it was a quite beautiful trick 
to allow the path to be set correctly no matter what drive the cygwin 
folder is on.  :)

Harold