Re: Merging emacs-23 into trunk

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:42:46 -0500
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> 
> PS I don't recall seeing a compelling reason as to why configure needs
> to be in the repository at all

The reason is that if we don't keep it in the repository, everyone
should have Autoconf installed.  Whether this is "compelling", I don't
know.

> (src/config.in is needed by feeble platforms that can't generate it
> themselves, but AFAIK this does not apply to configure.)

True.