Re: Emacs vista build failures

[Thomas Lord]

Richard M Stallman wrote:
>     the build system is a vital component in the software distribution (and
>     it is even more crucial for free software). Yet it is in the sad state
>     that we have today.
>
> I think the main reason our configuration and build methods
> are so clumsy is that they were designed to run on lots of different
> systems using only the programs we could expect to be available on them.
>   



I agree.

It's a mistake worth correcting that more than (say) 10 GNU programs
rely on a system designed with those constraints.  (Then those "10" (or
so) can be used, exclusively, to bootstrap all of the rest of GNU 
user-space.).


-t