Re: Emacs vista build failures

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   >     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.

Exactly, wouldn't it be just easier to request the user to install
whatever POSIX shell that is required in INSTALL or similar?