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 Installation
 ============
 
+It is recommended to either compile Lua with the "-pthread" flag or preload libpthread.so on Linux when using this module ([See this glibc bug report](http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10652):
+	$ LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libpthread.so lua
+
 With LuaRocks 2.0.4.1:
 	$ sudo luarocks install https://github.com/Neopallium/lua-zmq/raw/master/rockspecs/lua-zmq-scm-1.rockspec