+
+<a name="prereq-general">
+<h3>1.1 General prerequisites for building</h3>
+
+<ul>
+<li>lex / yacc - for building the GLSL compiler.
+On Linux systems, flex and bison are used.
+Versions 2.5.35 and 2.4.1, respectively, (or later) should work.
+</li>
+<li>python - Python is needed for building the Gallium components.
+Version 2.6.4 or later should work.
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+
+<a name="prereq-dri">
+<h3>1.2 Prerequisites for DRI and hardware acceleration</h3>
+
+<p>
+The following are required for DRI-based hardware acceleration with Mesa:
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li><a href="http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/proto/">dri2proto</a> version 1.99.3 or later
+<li>Linux 2.6.28
+<li><a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/libdrm/" target="_parent">libDRM</a>
+version 2.4.15 or later
+<li>Xorg server version 1.5 or later
+</ul>
+</p>
+
+
+<a name="autoconf">
+<h3>1.3 Building with Autoconf</h3>
+
+<p>
+Mesa may be <a href="autoconf.html">built using autoconf</a>.
+This should work well on most GNU-based systems.
+If that fails the traditional Mesa build system is available.
+
+
+
+<a name="traditional">
+<h3>1.4 Building with traditional Makefiles</h3>