Re: Emacs vista build failures

[David Kastrup]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:

>    > I do think this idea presents a chicken and egg problem though - the
>    > shell is needed by configure, but will not be available until it has
>    > been built by a bootstrap.
>
>    The shell could be built before running the configure.
>
> And how would that work for every other platform?

By using a subset of C and the respective libraries that is supported
everywhere.  The Lua interpreter is written in that way IIRC.

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