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 2005-11-09  David Hampton  <hampton@employees.org>
 
+	* doc/README.dependencies: Document the devel packages needed to
+	compile gnucash on FC4.
+
 	* src/gnome-utils/gnc-embedded-window.c:
 	* src/gnome-utils/gnc-menu-extensions.c:
 	* src/gnome-utils/gnc-plugin-menu-additions.c:
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+The following list of development packages are required to build
+gnucash "HEAD" on a FC4 system.  The rpm/yum packaging system may
+automatically pull in some other packages that aren't listed here
+(e.g. gtk2-devel).  That just means that one of the below packages
+listed the extra package as a required dependancy.  For example, the
+libgnomeui-devel package will trigger the inclusion of the gtk2-devel
+package.  This set of packages (plus dependancies) will give you
+everything you need to build gnucash.
+
+	bzip2-devel
+	expat-devel
+	gtkhtml3-devel
+	guile-devel
+	libgnomeprintui22-devel
+	libgnomeui-devel
+	libgsf-devel
+	libjpeg-devel
+	libtool-ltdl-devel
+	openssl-devel
+
+If you are compiling with the --enable-ofx or --enable-hbci flags,
+then you will want the following additional development packages.
+
+	aqbanking-devel
+	libofx-devel
+
+If you are compiling with the --enable-sql flags, then you will want
+the following additional development package.
+
+	postgresql-devel