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On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 01:23:20PM -0800, William Ahern wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 09:01:01AM +0200, steve donovan wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Rob Kendrick <rjek@rjek.com> wrote:
> > > Use of M4 has never resulted in anything good or wholesome.
> > 
> > Agreed. It's certainly not part of the common kit on Windows. And if
> > preprocessing is needed, then a little Lua script would be all that's
> > needed!
> 
> That's a bootstrapping problem. Now you have to build twice. Also, POSIX
> make doesn't come with Windows, either, which is what the makefiles are
> written in.

Windows doesn't come with a C compiler either.  So the user has to
install something extra something regardless :)

B.