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Update readme to reflect rust-lang#28260 and a workaround
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$ ./configure
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> ***Note:*** gcc versions >= 5 currently have issues building LLVM on Windows
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> resulting in a segmentation fault when building Rust. In order to avoid this
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> it may be necessary to obtain an earlier version of gcc such as 4.9.x.
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> Installers for earlier Windows builds of gcc are available at the
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> [Mingw-Builds] project.
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[Mingw-Builds]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/
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## Building Documentation
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