Re: Emacs vista build failures

[Jason Rumney]

Evans Winner wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden>
> writes:
>  
>     I presented (in this thread I believe) some of my
>     arguments about why to care about w32 too in my reply to
>     RMS about a portable mini-bash. I might be wrong, my
>     arguments might be bad, but I tried to give some
>     arguments.
> 
> I don't know much about it, but isn't that what MinGW is
> supposed to provide?

I think Lennart's suggestion is about a having a small POSIX shell that
can be bundled with Emacs (and other programs) to use on systems that do
not have a POSIX shell by default. MinGW/MSYS is an external dependency
which means an extra thing to go wrong for users.

I do think this idea presents a chicken and egg problem though - the
shell is needed by configure, but will not be available until it has
been built by a bootstrap.