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Re: New Guile VM
Dale> If Guile is going to be embedded in things like emacs and gdb,
Dale> and some of the build tools like autoconf and friends are going
Dale> to be rewritten to use guile instead of m4 or tcl; how are we
Dale> going to build guile?
Typically you don't need these tools to bootstrap. For instance
autoconf generates a configure script that requires various shell
tools, but not m4. Likewise automake generates a Makefile.in but
distributed packages which use automake don't require perl.
Tom