Attached is a patch to change the Emacs build procedure to use GNU Make instead of Automake, along the lines I suggested in January. I tested this on Fedora 25 and on Solaris 10. Although I've tried to make it portable to MS-Windows I cannot easily test it there. I plan to do more testing on it before installing it, and am sending it to bug-gnu-emacs now to give the MS-Windows folks a heads-up. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-01/msg00097.html