[pypy-commit] pypy default: warn people not to use 4.2 gcc

[lac]

Author: Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se>
Branch: 
Changeset: r46547:27092baa0f1d
Date: 2011-08-16 16:38 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/27092baa0f1d/

Log:	warn people not to use 4.2 gcc

diff --git a/pypy/doc/getting-started-python.rst b/pypy/doc/getting-started-python.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/getting-started-python.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/getting-started-python.rst
@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@
 .. _`windows document`: windows.html
 
 You can translate the whole of PyPy's Python interpreter to low level C code,
-or `CLI code`_.
+or `CLI code`_.  If you intend to build using gcc, check to make sure that
+the version you have is not 4.2 or you will run into `this bug`_.
+
+.. _`this bug`: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.2/+bug/187391
 
 1. First `download a pre-built PyPy`_ for your architecture which you will
    use to translate your Python interpreter.  It is, of course, possible to