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Nix now requires SQLite and bzip2 to be pre-installed.  SQLite is
detected using pkg-config.  We required DBD::SQLite anyway, so
depending on SQLite is not a big problem.

The --with-bzip2, --with-openssl and --with-sqlite flags are gone.
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@ -69,7 +69,36 @@ from source</emphasis>. Binary releases (e.g., RPMs) have no
prerequisites.</para>
<para>A fairly recent version of GCC/G++ is required. Version 2.95
and higher should work.</para>
and higher should work. Clang will also work.</para>
<para>Nix requires Perl, version 5.8 or higher.</para>
<para>Nix requires <command>pkg-config</command> to locate its
dependencies. If your distribution does not provide it, you can get
it from <link
xlink:href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config"
/>.</para>
<para>Nix requires the bzip2 compressor program and the
<literal>libbz2</literal> library. Thus you must have bzip2
installed, including development headers and libraries. If your
distribution does not provide these, you can obtain bzip2 from <link
xlink:href="http://www.bzip.org/"/>.</para>
<para>Nix requires the SQLite embedded database library. If your
distribution does not provide it, please install it from <link
xlink:href="http://www.sqlite.org/" />.</para>
<para>Nix requires the Perl DBI and DBD::SQLite libraries, which are
available from <link xlink:href="http://search.cpan.org/">CPAN</link>
if your distribution does not provide them.</para>
<para>Nix can optionally use the <link
xlink:href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/">Boehm
garbage collector</link> to reduce the evaluator’s memory consumption.
To enable it, install <literal>pkgconfig</literal> and the Boehm
garbage collector, and pass the flag <option>--enable-gc</option> to
<command>configure</command>.</para>
<para>To build this manual and the man-pages you need the
<command>xmllint</command> and <command>xsltproc</command> programs,
@ -96,22 +125,6 @@ ubiquitous 2.5.4a won't. Note that these are only required if you
modify the parser or when you are building from the Subversion
repository.</para>
<para>Nix uses the bzip2 compressor (including the bzip2 library). It
is included in the Nix source distribution. If you build from the
Subversion repository, you must download it yourself and place it in
the <filename>externals/</filename> directory. See
<filename>externals/Makefile.am</filename> for the precise URLs of
this packages. Alternatively, if you already have it installed, you
can use <command>configure</command>'s <option>--with-bzip2</option>
options to point to their respective locations.</para>
<para>Nix can optionally use the <link
xlink:href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/">Boehm
garbage collector</link> to reduce the evaluator’s memory consumption.
To enable it, install <literal>pkgconfig</literal> and the Boehm
garbage collector, and pass the flag <option>--enable-gc</option> to
<command>configure</command>.</para>
</section>