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> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:17:55 -0500
> From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > OSX uses autoconf and doesn't build right now...
> 
> it's not enough to have a magic bullet - you also have to know how to use it :-)
> (in this particular case - switching to gnulib is a non-trivial step,
> so some breakage is nigh inevitable).

Exactly my point: with such a non-trivial step, the fact that the w32
build is broken does not mean we should conclude that the Windows port
cannot be reasonably maintained without using autoconf.