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Building Ceph
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Ceph provides build scripts for source code and for documentation.

Building Ceph
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Ceph provides ``automake`` and ``configure`` scripts to streamline the build process. To build Ceph, navigate to your cloned Ceph repository and execute the following::

	$ cd ceph
	$ ./autogen.sh
	$ ./configure
	$ make

You can use ``make -j`` to execute multiple jobs depending upon your system. For example::

	$ make -j4

To install Ceph locally, you may also use::

	$ make install

If you install Ceph locally, ``make`` will place the executables in ``usr/local/bin``.
You may add the ``ceph.conf`` file to the ``usr/local/bin`` directory to run an evaluation environment of Ceph from a single directory.

Building Ceph Documentation
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Ceph utilizes Python’s Sphinx documentation tool. For details on the Sphinx documentation tool, refer to: `Sphinx <http://sphinx.pocoo.org>`_. To build the Ceph documentaiton, navigate to the Ceph repository and execute the build script::

	$ cd ceph
	$ admin/build-doc

Once you build the documentation set, you may navigate to the source directory to view it::

	$ cd build-doc/output

There should be an ``/html`` directory and a ``/man`` directory containing documentation in HTML and manpage formats respectively.