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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.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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