Re: Emacs vista build failures

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Richard M Stallman wrote:
>     > That is good news, but the general problem remains
>     > as far as I know.  Has there been a general move towards
>     > supporting the GNU configure and build specs?
>
>     As far as I know (I don't hack on X, I just read the mailing list), the
>     entire build infrastructure was replaced, and you can now do
>     "./configure ...; make" etc., and things work in the normal GNU
>     style.
>
> We are miscommunicating.  As regards X itself, I took for granted that
> that is what you meant.
>
> My question concerns looking beyond X to the free software community
> as a whole.  Has there been a broader move towords supporting the GNU
> configure and build specs?

I can't help but thinking about the problems with building Emacs itself 
on w32. Is not one of the problems there the lack of a sh/bash or 
whatever that can easily be used when building Emacs?

Something like a portable mini-bash (with more limited capabilities) 
that runs also on w32 and could be used together with w32 programs would 
perhaps make this better.