This is an implementation of the Service Availability Forum's 
Hardware Platform Interface specification.
The header file was obtained from www.saforum.org/specification/download.

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PREREQUISITES
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The following software is required to build openhpi

autoconf >= 2.50
automake >= 1.5
uuid.h      (may be found in e2fsprogs-devel or uuid-dev)
OpenIPMI >= 0.26 (http://openipmi.sf.net)

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BUILD / INSTALLATION
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You should be able to run 

./bootstrap 
./configure

then make (or make rpm)
and then make install (or install from the rpm).

It will generate the openhpi library and a sample application 
that uses the library.

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CLEANUP
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To remove the temporary build files, type:

make clean

If you are a maintainer, and need to remove all autogenerated files, type:

make clean
make maintainer-clean

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FOR MORE INFO
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For more information please see the project webiste at 
http://openhpi.sourceforge.net

Also visit SAForum's website at http://www.saforum.org