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Classical libraries are installed as binary object code. Gnulib is
different: It is used as a source code library. Each package that uses
Gnulib thus ships with part of the Gnulib source code. The used portion
of Gnulib is tailored to the package: A build tool, called
gnulib-tool, is provided that copies a tailored subset of Gnulib
into the package.