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@@ -118,7 +118,11 @@ you can get a native toolchain [here](https://skarnet.org/toolchains/).
- The ability to loop-mount filesystems on the BUILD machine.
- A few necessary tools for the BUILD machine:
- + GNU `make`, version 3.81 or later
+ + GNU `make`, version 4.4 or later. It will work with versions older than 4.4
+if you don't use the `-j` option, but that means slow
+builds. (Explanation: when asked for parallel builds, lh-bootstrap uses the
+`--jobserver-style` option to `make` in order to work around some bugs. But this
+option only appears in GNU make 4.4.)
+ `bc`, Perl 5 (necessary for the Linux kernel compilation as well as syslinux)
+ `su`, `patch`, `sed`
+ `git`