Re: Rebase of the pr-msvc-support branch?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 06:37:18PM CET:
> It will solve a lot of problems if autotools can be used to 
> build real Windows programs.

Yes, but we need to address the efficiency issue.  For example,
<http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2008/11/4959.php>
dropped the cccl idea due to the slowness.  Now, with a binary
wrapper things may be a bit better, still, faster fork would
probably help loads for autotools on w32.

Cheers,
Ralf