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>Chapter 2. Building and Installing libdbi</H1
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>libdbi uses the "autotools", i.e. <SPAN
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>If you build libdbi from a tarball, the docs are already prebuilt and ready to install. In this case, you don't need this option. However, if you build from a cvs checkout, this is a simple way to switch off building the documentation. This is useful if you don't want to install the prerequisites for building the docs (<SPAN
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>Once you have figured out which options to use or not, you are ready to go ahead and run:</P
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