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+Note: libkab is now obsolete. Please use libkabc in kdelibs/kabc. libkab is
+no longer installed. It's only needed for the conversion tool converting
+libkab data to libkabc data.
+
+Cornelius Schumacher, February 2002.
+
+
+
+The KDE addressbook
+===================
+
+This directory contains the sources for the kab API provided by "libkab.so".
+kab is the KDE addressbook, users usually know it by one of the applications
+using the kab API, kab itselfes. But kab intends to do more, it tries to be
+a central database to store personal information for as much KDE
+applications as possible.
+
+To compile this subdirectory, your C++ compiler will be stressed a little. 
+You need either a recent version of gcc (2.7.2 or later) or egcs (1.0.2 or
+later), or another C++ compiler that supports the following things:
+
+* error free (!) creation of template instances,
+* a STL implementation that is similar to either the one provided by gcc
+2.7 or the one provided by egcs/pgcc or gcc >=2.8 (HP or SGI based).
+
+Please note that egcs / pgcc 1.0.2 creates errors in the binary when you
+compile the sources using optimization level 6 (-O6).  Stick to -O2, and
+it should work. Note: This seems to be solved since gcc 2.95.
+
+Since this directory provides only the kab library, you will have to
+install the kdeutils package, that contains the sources for kab's binary,
+also.
+
+                                                   Mirko Boehm, March 2000.
+
+PS: The situation described above seems to be solved in current
+distributions. All up-to-date compilers do quite well on the sources.
+						   Mirko Boehm, Mai 2001.