Building the manual

Zack Weinberg zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu
Thu Jul 30 18:46:00 GMT 1998


On Thu, 30 Jul 1998 19:43:54 -0600 (MDT), Roland McGrath wrote:
>> I thought that came with binutils but I was wrong; on my system it was
>> pulled from 4.4.  Try /src/usr.bin/tsort/tsort.c from your favorite
>> *BSD mirror.
>> 
>> I'm open to suggestions on how to do it differently.  We'll distribute
>> the file it's used to generate, so it's probably not a major issue.
>
>That makes it not a problem that it's not one of the approved minimal tools
>required to simply build libc from the source distribution.  
>
>But it is certainly a problem if developing libc requires some tool that is
>not in any standard GNU package.  This state of affairs should not go out
>in a public release.
>
>Having tsort added to one of the GNU *utils packages would be a fine solution.

It probably belongs in textutils.  Who maintains that?

zw



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