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 Building FreeLAN
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-FreeLAN is written in C++11. Make sure your C++ compiler is recent enough and supports this standard. On Linux for instance, you need at least `gcc 4.9.2` for things to go fine.
+FreeLAN is written in C++11. Make sure your C++ compiler is recent enough and supports this standard. On Linux for instance, you need at least `gcc >= 4.8` for things to go fine.
 
 FreeLAN uses [scons](http://www.scons.org/) as its build system on POSIX-like systems (basically everything except Windows).