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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: require GNU make to build emacs?
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    Shouldn't we require GNU make to build emacs?

Before a drastic change like that, we certainly should ask the users
to say if it would be a problem.

Stefan and Yidong, if you would like to do this, please
talk with me about it.