From 09721f8c9175cb69a4ad03ce2ff27cf63392eafe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tropical <42101043+tropicaaal@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 01:29:03 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] docs: add instructions for checking GCC version

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 README.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c1b23a14e..03f6f3d3f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ If you are on wayland, swap glfw-x11 to glfw-wayland, but its doesn't matter cuz
 ### Configure & Build
 
 > [!IMPORTANT]
-> GCC 15 or newer is currently *required* to build this project. Ubuntu installations in particular may have older versions of `gcc` preinstalled.
+> GCC 15 or newer is currently *required* to build this project. Ubuntu installations in particular may have older versions preinstalled, so verify your compiler version with `gcc --version`.
 
 This project uses the [Meson](https://mesonbuild.com/) build system.