Re: syncing Emacs from sources maintained elsewhere

[Andy Moreton]

On Mon 17 Jan 2011, Paul Eggert wrote:
> No further comment to my suggestion to sync some gnulib files to Emacs
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-01/msg00328.html>,
> so I installed that as revision 102878 on the Emacs trunk.  I also
> regenerated the source files by invoking "make sync-from-gnulib", and
> installed one or two minor related fixups involving "make
> maintainer-clean".
>
> When time permits I'd like to look into syncing a few other modules
> such as strftime.  These will take a bit more work, since Emacs and
> gnulib have diverged, and I plan to focus on modules where merging is
> easy.

The changes to update gnulib break the Windows build, which will no
longer bootstrap. It seems that the new lib dir needs a makefile.win-in
and some work on the build scripts similar to the old lib-src dir.

    AndyM