slowbaud is pretty simple to build.

Prerequisites:

- UNIXish OS (possibly even Windows, these days)
- C compiler

You should be able to build slowbaud with "make" (which can be either
GNU or BSD make). It'll run from its source directory (as ./slowbaud),
and you can install it system-wide with "make install"... which
supports standard variables like DESTDIR for packagers.

If you're going to edit the documentation, it's in RST and you'll
need the rst2man.py (or just rst2man) command. On Slackware 14.2,
this comes from the docutils package on SlackBuilds.org; on 15.0
it will be in the core OS, as python-docutils. On Debian, it's in
python3-docutils.