notmuch on w32

[David Bremner]

Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> writes:

> I'd suggest you do a system that attaches to the current system with as
> small changes as possible (so you get reviewers) and put all windows
> specific things to separate script(s) (which is executed *only* when windows
> build is detected). The gnulib dependency could be handled so that in 
> case (ext/*)gnulib directory does not exist, first
> 'git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git' is done -- and then
> a specific commit is checked out from the clone (git reset --hard <hash>)

After looking at gnulib a bit yesterday, it seems unlikely that we need
or want all of it.  It might be simpler to just grab the bits of gnulib
we need and throw them in ./compat. gnulib-tool seems to want autoconf,
but you don't have to use gnulib-tool.

d