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Document required build tool: which (JuliaLang#37494)
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On minimal Linux environments `which` may not be an installed tool. Alternatively `command -v` could be used as an alternative in the Makefiles to avoid this dependency.
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- **[cmake]** (>= 3.4.3) — needed to build `libgit2`.
- **[pkg-config]** — needed to build `libgit2` correctly, especially for proxy support.
- **[powershell]** (>= 3.0) — necessary only on Windows.
- **[which]** — needed for checking build dependencies.

On Debian-based distributions (e.g. Ubuntu), you can easily install them with `apt-get`:
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[mbedtls]: https://tls.mbed.org/
[pkg-config]: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
[powershell]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/wmf/overview
[which]: https://carlowood.github.io/which/

## Build dependencies

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