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On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 7:41 AM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> By the way, why are m4 footprints deprecated in gEDA?  That looks like a
>> step backwards.
>
> Mostly, "not generally available on Windows"

Anyone capable of running gEDA on Windows is more than capable of installing
gnuwin32.  http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/  Has M4 and the other
needed 'missing' things like ls, which etc.

What I see on the list is people usually disable M4 because it
conflicts in odd ways with footprint files.
Which has noting to do with the operating system.