--- a/configure.in	Sun Jun 22 04:01:27 2008 +0000
+++ b/configure.in	Sun Jun 22 06:49:00 2008 +0000
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@
 AC_HEADER_STDC
 AC_CANONICAL_BUILD
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST
+
+AC_PATH_PROG(POD2MAN, [pod2man])
+AC_PATH_PROG(POD2HTML, [pod2html])
+
+dnl ---------------- enable/with flags ------------------
+
 AC_ARG_ENABLE( trace, 
    AS_HELP_STRING( [--enable-trace], [Enable generation of IO traces (warning: hurts performance)]),
    [if test "$enableval" == "yes"; then