From 823e6a3b7c83e173766d1d0d86353388543d6b17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Lo=C3=AFc=20Hoguin?= <essen@ninenines.eu>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:58:46 +0100
Subject: Document the requirement on flock for parallel builds

---
 doc/src/guide/installation.asciidoc | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

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

diff --git a/doc/src/guide/installation.asciidoc b/doc/src/guide/installation.asciidoc
index 3298db2..254b461 100644
--- a/doc/src/guide/installation.asciidoc
+++ b/doc/src/guide/installation.asciidoc
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ Alpine Linux and other distributions based on BusyBox come
 with an incompatible `awk` program. Installing the GNU Awk
 (`gawk` on Alpine) solves this issue.
 
+Parallel builds may require the program `flock` that can
+be found in the package `util-linux`.
+
 ==== FreeBSD
 
 FreeBSD comes with binary and source packages:
@@ -56,6 +59,11 @@ is the one provided by Apple.
 [source,bash]
 $ sudo port install erlang git gmake
 
+Parallel builds may require the program `flock` which can
+be installed via Homebrew or manually. The instructions
+to install are available from its repository:
+https://github.com/discoteq/flock
+
 === On Windows
 
 Erlang.mk can be used on Windows inside an MSYS2 environment.
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