Re: Emacs vista build failures

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Reply-to: address@hidden
>> 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.

I recommend reading
(info "(autoconf) Limitations of builtins")

It would be marvellous if somebody managed to heed _all_ of the
incompatibilities by chance first time round for non-trivial scripts.

And that's just the shell: the autoconf setup requires quite a larger
set of utilities.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum