[moved to hugs-bugs] "Koen Claessen" writes:

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Then, when I run `hugs', a windows window (!) pops up with an error that `cygreadline5.dll' cannot be found. I checked in /usr/lib, and there lies a fine libreadline.a, so I do not understand why it is using dlls in the first place. (I would like to get this fixed though.)

That's because libreadline.a refers to that DLL (i.e., not a Hugs issue, just the way readline is packaged up under cygwin.) You need to make sure that the DLL is accessible via your PATH.

When I reconfigure without --with-readline, an executable is generated which dumps core without doing anything else right away.

As I said, I can't repro this with the current sources. --sigbjorn