Bzip2 to uncompress the distribution.
A reasonable tar to unpack the
distribution. GNU tar is known to work.
A working ANSI C compiler. GNU gcc is known to work.
A good make program. GNU make
is recommended and sometimes required.
A sed - stream editor.
A perl interpreter, if install.pl will be used for installation.
To build documentation from XML sources, you need jade or openjade
installed.
You need also jadetex installed to build documentation in PDF.
Use make book.pdf command in doc/ subdirectory to make that documentation.