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+System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses (SAGA) is a Geographic 
+Information System software with immense capabilities for geodata 
+processing and analysis.
+
+SAGA supports the implementation of new functions with an effective 
+API. Functions are organised as modules in framework independent 
+Module Libraries and can be accessed via SAGA's Graphical User 
+Interface or various scripting environments (shell scripts, Python, 
+R and so on).
+
+SAGA can use these optional autodetected dependencies enabled if they 
+are found in the system: 
+libharu, OpenMP, OpenCV, qhull, vigra, pdal, postgresql/postgis, 
+libLAS, proj, hdf5. Previous issues given with OpenCV version 4 or 
+greater and vigra seem solved in last versions of SAGA.
+
+WARNINGS:
+1) Unlike earlier versions of SAGA, the build of last versions 
+   requires wxGTK3 => 3.1 that is not available in Slackbuilds.org at 
+   the moment. If you want to build this version of SAGA you have to 
+   install the package wxWidgets (also available in Slackbuilds.org).
+2) SAGA requires an ODBC driver in the system. It works both with 
+   iODBC (installed with the libiodbc package (included in Slackware 
+   15.0) and unixODBC (installed from the SBo's slackbuild). The build 
+   first searches for unixODBC then for iODBC. It fails if any driver 
+   is found. These drivers are in conflict so, if you have installed 
+   and then removed unixODBC, please make sure to reinstall libiodbc. 
+   You should also consider that a package prebuilt in a Slackware 
+   with unixODBC should not be installed in a system with iODBC (and 
+   vice versa).
+3) unixODBC is a required dependency in 32 bit systems: the source 
+   code of SAGA conflicts with the code of a libiodbc header 
+   (/usr/include/iodbcunix.h) and the build fails. This issue can be 
+   overcome by installing unixODBC from the SBo's slackbuild.