From: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 21:12:00 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Document build-time dependencies.
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Document build-time dependencies.
---

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d1d3fd4..1c18a86 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -10,6 +10,14 @@
 # git submodule update --recursive --remote
 #
 # but this should seldom be necessary as that library is pretty stable.
+#
+# You will also need Python 3 YAML.  Under Debian or ubuntu:
+#
+# apt-get install python3-yaml
+#
+# If you have pip installed,
+#
+# pip3 install PyYAML
 
 VERS=1.0
 
diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index 07d9ae8..f6a0014 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ original 6-character name on the PDP-10 has been reverted to for the
 executable in order to avoid a collision with the BSD games port of
 the ancestral 1977 version.
 
+The distribution has three build-time depedencies: Python 3, Python 3
+YAML, and the linenoise library.  It builds a pure C executable.
+
 You can run a regression test on the code with 'make check'. Extreme
 care has been taken to not silently change gameplay. By policy, all
 user-visible changes from 2.5 are revertible with the -o (oldstyle)