Re: Emacs vista build failures

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:58:47 +0200
> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden>
> CC: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>, address@hidden, 
>  address@hidden
> 
> > Unfortunately, I think Lennart's idea is not practical: a typical
> > configure script exercises many advanced shell features, and so
> > crafting a shell that could run it will need to implement most of the
> > features we have in Bash.  Such a shell will be neither small nor
> > portable, because a Posix shell needs quite a few Posix features.
> 
> You might have told me before, but what advanced features are you 
> thinking of?

`fork', for starters.

> Perhaps "portable" is much more important than "small".

If it is not "small", it will be a large job to write it.  Better
invest that effort into making a native port of Bash, instead of
inventing another wheel.