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-$Id: INSTALL,v 1.11 2015/03/19 14:57:29 schwarze Exp $
+$Id: INSTALL,v 1.13 2015/11/07 14:01:16 schwarze Exp $
 
 About mdocml, the portable mandoc distribution
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 Understanding mandoc dependencies
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-The mandoc(1), man(1), and demandoc(1) utilities have no external
-dependencies, but makewhatis(8) and apropos(1) depend on the
-following software:
+The mandoc(1), man(1), and demandoc(1) utilities only depend
+on the zlib library for decompressing gzipped manual pages,
+but makewhatis(8) and apropos(1) depend on the following
+additional software:
 
 1. The SQLite database system, see <http://sqlite.org/>.
 The recommended version of SQLite is 3.8.4.3 or newer.  The mandoc
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 3. Marc Espie's ohash(3) library.
 If your system does not have it, the bundled compatibility version
 will be used, so you probably need not worry about it.
+
+One of the chief design goals of the mandoc toolbox is to make
+sure that nothing related to documentation requires C++.
+Consequently, linking mandoc against any kind of C++ program
+would defeat the purpose and is not supported.
 
 
 Checking autoconfiguration quality