Re: Emacs vista build failures

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > Doing so _manually_ (as a shell script or something) is not particularly
> > hard if you have simple needs.  If you're using some other build tool,
> > it should often be fairly straight-forward to use that tool with a thin
> > layer on top to implement the GNU configure interface.
>
> It would be cool to have shell libraries you could use for whipping your
> own configure.  I.e. no m4 macros but powerful shell functions you can
> just call.


And once again: If this did not work easily on w32 too it might stop 
people from using it.