[pypy-commit] pypy default: document cffi as a build-time requirement
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Mon Jan 30 12:35:11 EST 2017
Author: Ronan Lamy <ronan.lamy at gmail.com>
Branch:
Changeset: r89847:31ec34667797
Date: 2017-01-30 17:34 +0000
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/31ec34667797/
Log: document cffi as a build-time requirement
diff --git a/pypy/doc/build.rst b/pypy/doc/build.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/build.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/build.rst
@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@
.. _`arm document`: http://rpython.readthedocs.org/en/latest/arm.html
.. _`RPython documentation`: http://rpython.readthedocs.org
+The host Python needs to have CFFI installed. If translating on PyPy, CFFI is
+already installed. If translating on CPython, you need to install it, e.g.
+using ``pip install cffi``.
To build PyPy on Unix using the C translation backend, you need at least a C
compiler and ``make`` installed. Further, some optional modules have additional
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