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- GNU Make (Anything reasonably recent)
- GNU g++ (>= 4.3)
- git (>= 1.6.0)
- CppUnit (>=1.12)
- Perl (Anything reasonably recent)
- For mergedeps.pl, which automatically inserts included headers in source files into the make dependencies.
- Python 2.4 For cpplint.py6
- Boost
- pcre
To get a working toolchain Debian (and probably Ubuntu):
aptitude install build-essential git-core libcppunit-dev
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