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Document the requirement on flock for parallel builds

Loïc Hoguin 6 years ago
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@@ -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.