Autotools and The Core

So,

While waiting for responses to my other mail, I installed subversion,
grabbed bleeding, and started working on cleaning up the use of
autotools in the core. I do have it passing distcheck now, but there
are still quite a bit of issues to deal with, mainly the static vs.
dynamic plug-in builds. Anyway, I noticed that there is a lot of
weirdness for building the core on win32 in the Makefile.am files.
Some parts were commented out, some parts add libraries, that we
seemingly don't check for in the core configure script, etc... And,
so, I was wondering what the state of the core is on win32, and
why we need to require glib2 there, but we don't want to require it
on unix. I'd like just go through and make the whole build sane right
off the bat, than just making it pass distcheck, and then dealing with
the other problems later. Thanks.

-- dobey