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 make install
 ```
 
-#### Building span-lite
-
-Check out the [span-lite source](https://github.com/martinmoene/span-lite).
-
-Then run these commands in the source directory.
-
-```
-mkdir build && cd build
-cmake ..
-make
-make install
-```
-
 #### Building stdplus
 
 Check out the [stdplus source](https://github.com/openbmc/stdplus).