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+Compiling on ARM
+----------------
+
+Julia has been compiled on several ARMv7 / Cortex A15 Samsung Chromebooks running
+Ubuntu Linux. The port is still a work in progress, and several tests are known to
+be failing.
+
+In addition to the standard `build-essentials` toolchain, the following libraries
+must be installed to build on ARM:
+
+- libblas3gf, liblapack3gf, libsuitesparse-dev, libfftw3-dev, libgmp3-dev, libmpfr-dev