Re: Emacs vista build failures

[Johannes Weiner]

Hi,

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:

> Johannes Weiner wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> To be honest, I couldn't give the slightest about w32.  It's a pile of
>> crap that should have never seen the light of day, all political issues
>> left aside and I, FWIW, would not consider it when designing software.
>
>
> I not sure why you tell me that. I see no reason why I should be
> interested in your opinion about it.
>
> I am interested in getting the free software movement forward and "I
> know best" attitudes will not help.

No offence.  You suggested it should work on Windows in a reply to me.
So I stated my opinion about it.

I am also interested in getting the free software movement forward.  I
just don't have any idea how that relates to Windows.

        Hannes