## Introduction

Liberasurecode is an erasure code library which can support multiple
erasure code 'backends'. The repository includes a Jerasure for Reed-Solomon
implementation.

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## Dependencies

liberasurecode requires that the following dependencies be installed:

* gf-complete: http://www.kaymgee.com/Kevin_Greenan/Software_files/gf-complete.tar.gz
* Jerasure: http://www.kaymgee.com/Kevin_Greenan/Software_files/jerasure.tar.gz

## Build

To build the liberasurecode repository, perform the following from the root
directory of the repository:

`$ ./configure`
`$ make`
`$ make test`
`$ sudo make install`