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 Dazzle
 ======
+
+Build
+=====
+Dazzle depends on LMDB as the storage engine so you need to compile and install it first.
+
+`git clone -b mdb.master --single-branch git://git.openldap.org/openldap.git`
+
+`make`
+
+`make install`