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+
+The Solaris build will only build the librados library.
+
+Build Prerequisites
+===================
+
+The following Solaris packages are required for compilation:
+
+ git
+ autoconf
+ libtool
+ automake
+ gcc-c++-48
+ gnu-make
+
+ (use the "pkg install <packagename>" command to install, as root)
+
+Download and Compile Boost 1.59 (or higher)
+
+Building Ceph
+=============
+
+ export LDFLAGS="-m64 -L<pathtoboost>/stage/lib -L/usr/lib/mps/64"
+ export CPPFLAGS="-m64 -I<pathtoboost>"
+ export CXXFLAGS="-m64"
+ export CFLAGS="-m64"
+
+ ./autogen.sh
+ ./configure --disable-server --without-fuse --without-tcmalloc --without-libatomic-ops --without-libaio --without-libxfs
+ cd src
+ gmake librados.la
+