<title>Building from Source</title>

<para>
  Installing from source will involve the following steps:
  <link linkend="gettingsource">getting the source</link>,
  <link linkend="codedepend">resolving dependencies</link>,
  <link linkend="configure">configuration</link>,
  <link linkend="compile">compilation</link>,
  <link linkend="runtests">testing</link>, and
  <link linkend="install">installation</link>.
  The &app; installation process is fairly standard:
  <programlisting>
  ./autogen.sh
  ./configure &lt;options&gt;
  make
  make check
  make install
  </programlisting>
</para>
<para>
  Continue reading for detailed step-by-step instructions 
  of the entire procedure.
</para>  
<para>
  Presently, &app; source is about 16 MB when extracted and
  <link linkend="configure">configured</link>.  <link
  linkend="compile">Compilation</link> requires about 100 MB of
  harddrive space.
  A minimum of 128 MB of physical RAM is recommended for compiling.
</para>  



