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Recipe for compiling and installing software
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The recipe provides the means to compile and install source distributions
using ``configure`` and ``make`` and other similar tools. It is inspired by
the hexagonit.recipe.cmmi_ recipe but provides more control over the build process.

.. _hexagonit.recipe.cmmi : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/hexagonit.recipe.cmmi