Re: Emacs vista build failures

[Johannes Weiner]

Richard M Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     > That is good news, but the general problem remains
>     > as far as I know.  Has there been a general move towards
>     > supporting the GNU configure and build specs?
>
>     As far as I know (I don't hack on X, I just read the mailing list), the
>     entire build infrastructure was replaced, and you can now do
>     "./configure ...; make" etc., and things work in the normal GNU
>     style.
>
> We are miscommunicating.  As regards X itself, I took for granted that
> that is what you meant.
>
> My question concerns looking beyond X to the free software community
> as a whole.  Has there been a broader move towords supporting the GNU
> configure and build specs?

Maybe you heard the term `autohell' once?  People tend to forget about
political issues when they are just frustrated with the software.

        Hannes