Re: Multi-platform build system (was: Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS)

[Christoph Scholtes]

On 10/13/2011 7:06 PM, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> > Time ago I volunteered to write a CMake [1] build spec for Emacs. It was
> > considered unnecessary by the people who does most of the work on the
> > current build systems.
>
> IIRC, it was also unacceptable, because the user would need CMake to
> build Emacs, as opposed to just generating makefiles than can be
> packed into the tarball. Is that so, or am I misremembering?

Couldn't you pack the Makefiles generated with CMake into the tarball 
when you create it?