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@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Evented I/O for V8 javascript.
 Prerequisites (Unix only):
 
     * GCC 4.2 or newer
+    * G++ 4.2 or newer
     * Python 2.6 or 2.7
     * GNU Make 3.81 or newer
     * libexecinfo (FreeBSD and OpenBSD only)