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authorCorey Farwell <coreyf@rwell.org>2016-12-21 10:58:46 -0800
committerCorey Farwell <coreyf@rwell.org>2016-12-21 14:21:49 -0800
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Clarify phrasing of MSYS2 dependencies in README.md.
Fixes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/36115.
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# Install build tools needed for Rust. If you're building a 32-bit compiler,
# then replace "x86_64" below with "i686". If you've already got git, python,
# or CMake installed and in PATH you can remove them from this list. Note
- # that it is important that the `python2` and `cmake` packages **not** used.
- # The build has historically been known to fail with these packages.
+ # that it is important that you do **not** use the 'python2' and 'cmake'
+ # packages from the 'msys2' subsystem. The build has historically been known
+ # to fail with these packages.
$ pacman -S git \
make \
diffutils \