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Apache Avro Build Instructions

REQUIREMENTS

The following packages must be installed before Avro can be built:

- Java: JDK 1.6 and 1.5 (for Forrest docs)

- Python: 2.5 or greater, python-setuptools for dist target

- C: gcc, autoconf, automake, libtool, asciidoc, source-highlight

- C++: g++, flex, bison, libboost-dev

- Ruby: ruby 1.86 or greater, ruby-dev, gem, rake, echoe, yajl-ruby

- Apache Ant 1.7

- Apache Forrest 0.8 (for documentation, requires Java 1.5)

- md5sum, sha1sum, used by top-level dist target

BUILDING

Once the requirements are installed, build.sh can used as follows:

'./build.sh test' runs tests for all languages

'./build.sh dist' creates all release distribution files in dist/

'./build.sh clean' removes all generated artifacts