From 823e6a3b7c83e173766d1d0d86353388543d6b17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Lo=C3=AFc=20Hoguin?= 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') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3