Re: Merging emacs-23 into trunk

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Glenn Morris <address@hidden> wrote:
> Kenichi Handa wrote:
>
>> We can include configure in tarball. For those who get the source
>> from bzr, asking them to install autoconf is, I think, no big deal.
>
> Absolutely. I think it is entirely reasonable to say "building Emacs
> from bzr on a POSIX platform requires autoconf".


You are not building in the POSIX environment on w32.


> As a random data point, GNU make apparently did this years ago:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2004-02/msg00040.html
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>