[lxc-devel] [lxd/master] doc: Update requirements

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Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 11:11:56 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Update requirements
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Signed-off-by: Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>
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 doc/requirements.md | 16 +++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/requirements.md b/doc/requirements.md
index 229b76a31..0b80fa926 100644
--- a/doc/requirements.md
+++ b/doc/requirements.md
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 # Requirements
 ## Go
-
-LXD requires Go 1.9 or higher.
-Both the golang and gccgo compilers are supported.
+LXD requires Go 1.9 or higher and is only tested with the golang compiler.
 
 ## Kernel requirements
 The minimum supported kernel version is 3.13.
@@ -29,3 +27,15 @@ LXD requires LXC 2.0.0 or higher with the following build options:
 
 To run recent version of various distributions, including Ubuntu, LXCFS
 should also be installed.
+
+## Additional libraries (and development headers)
+LXD uses `dqlite` for its database, to build and setup the custom
+`sqlite3` and `dqlite` needed for it, you can run `make deps`.
+
+LXD itself also uses a number of (usually packaged) C libraries:
+ - libacl1
+ - libcap2
+ - libuv1 (for `dqlite`)
+
+Make sure you have both the libraries themselves and their development
+headers (-dev packages) installed.