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+Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:\r
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+> I'd suggest you do a system that attaches to the current system with as\r
+> small changes as possible (so you get reviewers) and put all windows\r
+> specific things to separate script(s) (which is executed *only* when windows\r
+> build is detected). The gnulib dependency could be handled so that in \r
+> case (ext/*)gnulib directory does not exist, first\r
+> 'git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git' is done -- and then\r
+> a specific commit is checked out from the clone (git reset --hard <hash>)\r
+\r
+After looking at gnulib a bit yesterday, it seems unlikely that we need\r
+or want all of it. It might be simpler to just grab the bits of gnulib\r
+we need and throw them in ./compat. gnulib-tool seems to want autoconf,\r
+but you don't have to use gnulib-tool.\r
+\r
+d\r