Re: Broken lisp/Makefile.w32-in

[Stefan Monnier]

> > Another problem: several targets (bootstrap-clean, compile-files, etc.) do
> > nested fors, and COMMAND.COM chokes on them.
> 
> If you cannot work around this, perhaps we should require Bash on
> Windows 9X?
> 
> > And finally a question: why is bootstrapping contingent on having a diff
> > program (and maybe also grep, I'm not sure)?
> 
> What parts of the bootstrap need those programs?

And I don't see anything wrong with requiring such things.
After all, we also require TeXinfo-4.2, based on the idea that people
working from the CVS can be expected to have more tools available
(and more uptodate ones) than people using distribution tarballs.


        Stefan