[pypy-svn] r35192 - pypy/dist/pypy/doc

[xoraxax at codespeak.net]

Author: xoraxax
Date: Fri Dec  1 11:19:42 2006
New Revision: 35192

Modified:
   pypy/dist/pypy/doc/getting-started.txt
Log:
Added explicit hint to install Boehm.

Modified: pypy/dist/pypy/doc/getting-started.txt
==============================================================================
--- pypy/dist/pypy/doc/getting-started.txt	(original)
+++ pypy/dist/pypy/doc/getting-started.txt	Fri Dec  1 11:19:42 2006
@@ -528,7 +528,9 @@
 By default the translation process will try to use the
 `Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector`_ for the translated PyPy (Use
 ``--gc=ref`` to use our own reference counting implementation which
-at the moment is slower but doesn't have external dependencies).
+at the moment is slower but doesn't have external dependencies). Be sure
+to install Boehm before starting the translation (e.g. by running
+``apt-get install libgc-dev`` on Debian).
 
 This whole process will take some time and quite a lot of memory. To
 reduce the memory footprint of the translation process you can use the