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Re: [patch] don't assume contrib is there
DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> writes:
>> Perhaps texi2pod.pl should move out of contrib to the gcc directory,
>> instead?
> Then you'd better add pod2man too. We're starting to rely on a lot of
> things outside maintainer-mode.
pod2man is just a driver wrapper around a Perl module, and I'm pretty sure
you don't want to distribute Perl modules with GCC. I think the best way
of viewing it is as a maintainer tool like autoconf that maintainers may
want to have installed on their systems but that end users shouldn't need.
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