Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
your concern about the checks for these tools was due to the configure
(or make, make install) failing if not present?

I want to know what are the exact dependencies for building the
tarball. Apart from valgrind (required for make check), what other
tools are needed for doing:
./configure && make && make check && make install
from the tarball? What about help2man?

Hi, the only dep to build the package is the C/C++ compiler (and the standard libraries).

valgrind is not required by make check (it is only required if you want to run make check-valgrind, which is not implied by make check); help2man is not required either.

As I said, if some of the above crucial deps are missing (C or C++ compiler) the configure will exit with error; otherwise, if other programs are missing, you can still run make, make check and make install.

cheers
        Lorenzo

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