-As the bare minimum, you'll need gcc-4 and gnu make to install
-libosl. lopsub is needed to build the oslfsck executable and to
-generate its man page. Download and install lopsub with
+Besides a working C compiler, gnu m4, gnu make and the
+[lopsub](http://people.tuebingen.mpg.de/maan/lopsub/) library must be
+installed to to build and install this package. Download and install
+lopsub with
- git clone git://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/lopsub
- cd lopsub && make && sudo make install
+ git clone git://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/lopsub
+ cd lopsub && make && sudo make install
If everything mentioned above is available on your system, type
make
-to build the library, the oslfsck executable and the man page. Then
-type
+to build libosl. Then type
- make install
+ sudo make install
-as root to install libosl, oslfsck and the man page. Finally, update
-the library cache by running
+to install. Finally, update the library cache by running
ldconfig
-The default installation prefix is /usr/local. Use
+The default installation prefix is `/usr/local`. Use
make install PREFIX=/somewhere/else
-to install in /somewhere/else instead.
+to install in `/somewhere/else` instead.
-The make targets in the web/ directory are used for web page generation
+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: