Re: CVS HEAD fails to build on OSX 10.4 (macterm.c broken?)

[Richard Stallman]

    > The simplest fix is to convert those macros to defuns, since
    > efficiency is not important here.

    > They could also be defsubsts, but getting the value of them would
    > entail such a `require' as caused trouble already.

    Sorry, I don't think that working around the bootstrap issue in this
    way is not a good thing to do now.

I do not follow you.  Do you see any reason why my patch to url.el
should not be installed?