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+You'll need gcc-4, gnu make and openssl to install libosl. gengetopt
+is needed for the oslfsck executable, and help2man to generate its
+man page.
+
+Type
+
+ make
+
+to build the library and
+
+ make install
+ ldconfig
+
+as root to install. The default installation prefix is /usr/local. Edit
+Makefile to change the prefix.
+
+The make targets in the web/ directory are used for web page generation
+and are not needed to compile, install or use libosl. In order to
+make these targets the following additional tools are needed:
+
+ - http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ (doxygen)
+ - man2html
+ - http://www.triptico.com/software/grutatxt.html (grutatxt)
+ - convert (from the ImageMagick package)