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 10.1 Basic Installation
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 These are generic installation instructions.
 
    The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
 various system-dependent variables used during compilation.  It uses
 those values to create a `Makefile' in each directory of the package.
 It may also create one or more `.h' files containing system-dependent
 definitions.  Finally, it creates a shell script `config.status' that
 you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration, a file
 `config.cache' that saves the results of its tests to speed up
 reconfiguring, and a file `config.log' containing compiler output
 (useful mainly for debugging `configure').
 
    If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try
 to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and mail
 diffs or instructions to the address given in the `README' so they can
 be considered for the next release.  If at some point `config.cache'
 contains results you don't want to keep, you may remove or edit it.
 
    The file `configure.in' is used to create `configure' by a program
 called `autoconf'.  You only need `configure.in' if you want to change
 it or regenerate `configure' using a newer version of `autoconf'.
 
 The simplest way to compile this package is:
 
   1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type
      `./configure' to configure the package for your system.  If you're
      using `csh' on an old version of System V, you might need to type
      `sh ./configure' instead to prevent `csh' from trying to execute
      `configure' itself.
 
      Running `configure' takes awhile.  While running, it prints some
      messages telling which features it is checking for.
 
   2. Type `make' to compile the package.
 
   3. Optionally, type `make check' to run any self-tests that come with
      the package.
 
   4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and
      documentation.
 
   5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
      source code directory by typing `make clean'.  To also remove the
      files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for
      a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'.  There is
      also a `make maintainer-clean' target, but that is intended mainly
      for the package's developers.  If you use it, you may have to get
      all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came
      with the distribution.
 
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