From 75e9daadf23cb36ab5cd077e32bfb4f1b7488bef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Lo=C3=AFc=20Hoguin?= <essen@ninenines.eu>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 16:05:39 +0100
Subject: On Alpine gawk is required

---
 doc/src/guide/installation.asciidoc | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc/src/guide/installation.asciidoc')

diff --git a/doc/src/guide/installation.asciidoc b/doc/src/guide/installation.asciidoc
index bd191ef..3298db2 100644
--- a/doc/src/guide/installation.asciidoc
+++ b/doc/src/guide/installation.asciidoc
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ The commands to install packages vary between distributions:
 [source,bash]
 $ pacman -S erlang git make
 
+Alpine Linux and other distributions based on BusyBox come
+with an incompatible `awk` program. Installing the GNU Awk
+(`gawk` on Alpine) solves this issue.
+
 ==== FreeBSD
 
 FreeBSD comes with binary and source packages:
-- 
cgit v1.2.3

