Prerequisites - GNU make >= 3.81 http://www.gnu.org/software/make/ - GNU bash >= 2.05a http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/ Installing the build system To install the build system you can say $ make install in the root directory of the source distribution. If you want to install it to a different location (default is /usr/local) you can say $ make install_prefix=/usr install Note that you need to install the build runtime into a place where `make' will look by default (normally /usr/include and /usr/local/include). Alternatively, you can install it into some other place (e.g., your home directory) and set MAKEFLAGS accordingly: $ make install install_prefix=/home/boris/local $ export MAKEFLAGS="-I /home/boris/local/include" Building examples There is a makefile accompanying each example. Saying 'make' usually does the trick. Note that saying 'make install' in example directory will install what the example has built as opposed to installing the example itself.