Subject: bug#14603: 24.3.50; Error while bootstrapping Emacs on Windows

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:43:50 +0300

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Jan Djärv <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],
>   [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:26:03 -0400
> 
> It was (really) great that you did this work, and it will mean that MS
> Windows gets to benefit from a lot of stuff for free, but don't expect
> those of us who don't care about MS Windows to suddenly start doing so
> and pick up the MS-Windows specific pieces.

The configure script is not Windows specific.  I don't see why you
would refrain from making changes there that cater to the Windows
build, given user requests and bug reports.