Re: Emacs vista build failures

[Eli Zaretskii]

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> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:11:56 -0400
> 
>    > 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?  

We were not talking about every other platform, just about w32.  Posix
platforms don't need to build a shell, they already have it.

> Really, why not have a shell (say bash) that can be easily installed
> on Windows (a .exe that you can put somewhere), and whatever other
> platform.  It could be distributed on ftp.gnu.org, like the emacs
> binaries for windows and other such unfriendly platforms.

That'd be the best, but unfortunately there's no native Windows port
of a Posix shell that is bug-free and powerful enough to run a typical
configure script.