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authorRuss Cox <rsc@golang.org>2009-11-09 23:12:09 -0800
committerRuss Cox <rsc@golang.org>2009-11-09 23:12:09 -0800
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in addition to bison, need to have gcc and c libraries installed.
R=r http://go/go-review/1024043
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<h2>Install Go</h2>
-<p>You need to have the parser generator Bison installed.
-It is installed as part of Xcode on OS X.
-If you need it on Linux,
+<p>The Go tool chain is written in C. To build it, you need
+to have GCC, the standard C libraries, and the parser generator Bison
+installed. On OS X, they can be installed as part of <a href="http://developer.apple.com/TOOLS/Xcode/">Xcode</a>.
+On Linux,
</p>
<pre>
-$ sudo apt-get install bison
+$ sudo apt-get install bison gcc libc6-dev
</pre>
<p>