Re: Build failure on Windows

[Paul Eggert]

martin rudalics wrote:
> I don't know where to go from here.  In the past two weeks I
> bootstrapped more often than in the past five years.  And if I'm not
> mistaken others experienced the same problem.

One possible improvement in this area is to use GNU Make's Automake-like 
features instead of using Automake. This should simplify the gnulib.mk business 
and should cause breakages to be less likely when the build procedure changes. 
We already assume GNU Make, so this should not introduce build dependencies. I 
mentioned this in January when we had similar build problems with macOS, but 
never got around to doing it. I'll try to bump the priority of this. See:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-01/msg00097.html