Development Dependencies

While Amanda's run-time and build-time requirements are minimal, Amanda development requires fairly new versions of several tools.

Note that the process of building an Amanda distribution tarball:

• applies the autotools to generate configure;
• applies SWIG to build the necessary C files;
• and applies Docbook to build the manpage source.

So while these tools are required to build from the source in Git or Subversion, they are not required to build from a tarball.

General

Bison

>= 1.27

note that this is required to build Amanda from distribution tarballs, too

Flex

>= 2.5.4a

note that this is required to build Amanda from distribution tarballs, too

Glib

>= 2.2.0 (glib version numbering is odd. 2.13.2 is fine!)

note that on some distributions you also need "devel" packages

note that this is required to build Amanda from distribution tarballs, too

Autotools

Automake

>= 1.9.6

Autoconf

>= 2.60

SWIG

SWIG

>= 1.3.31

note that if you are using MacPorts, you will need both swig and swig-perl

Documentation

For building the documentation (optional, only with --enable-manpage-build):

xsltproc

no known minimum version

docbook-xsl-stylesheets

1.72.0 or higher

docbook-xml-dtd

4.1.2, 4.2, and 4.4 (yes, all three)