diff --git a/src/etc/check-links.pl b/src/etc/check-links.pl
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--- a/src/etc/check-links.pl
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-#!/usr/bin/perl -w
-# Copyright 2014 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
-# file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
-# http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
-# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
-# <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
-# option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
-# except according to those terms.
-
-my $file = $ARGV[0];
-
-my @lines = <>;
-
-my $anchors = {};
-
-my $i = 0;
-for $line (@lines) {
-    $i++;
-    if ($line =~ m/id="([^"]+)"/) {
-        $anchors->{$1} = $i;
-    }
-}
-
-$i = 0;
-for $line (@lines) {
-    $i++;
-    while ($line =~ m/href="#([^"]+)"/g) {
-        if (! exists($anchors->{$1})) {
-            print "$file:$i: $1 referenced\n";
-        }
-    }
-}