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+## To Build
+```
+To build this package, do the following steps:
+
+    1. ./bootstrap.sh
+    2. ./configure ${CONFIGURE_FLAGS} --prefix=/usr
+    3. make
+
+To full clean the repository again run `./bootstrap.sh clean`.
+```
+
+```
+For local build, pass --prefix=/usr option to the configure script
+to let the Makefile use /usr/share value over /usr/local/share for ${datadir}
+variable. The error yaml files and elog parser are stored in /usr/share
+location in the SDK.
+```
+
+```
+For CI build, ${datadir} is expanded to /usr/local/share to which the
+dependent files and parser are exported, so don't add the prefix option.
+```
+
+```
+For recipe build, ${datadir} is expanded to /usr/share to which the
+dependent files and parser are exported, so don't add the prefix option.
+```