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- adds warning about POSIX MinGW - adds notice about patched readline, closes JuliaLang#4326
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@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ There are a few environments you can use to build julia. Making this easy requir
 Important Build Errata
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+- You must use win32 threads version of MinGW. **Do not** use a POSIX threads version of MinGW.
 - Do not use GCC 4.6 or earlier or gcc-dw2, stuff will be broken
+- Julia uses a [patched version](http:https://github.com/JuliaLang/readline/tarball/master) of GNU Readline 5.0
 
 
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