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Update the README and the CHANGELOG
Add a section on different standard libraries and add missing changes to the changelog.
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### Unreleased
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* Update upstream v8 version to 5.1.281.59
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* Make sure the patch set is applied in the correct order
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### 5.0.71.48.4, 5.0.71.48.5 - 2016-05-13:
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* Enable the -fPIC flag for ARM

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> This step release system is a workaround to carlhuda/bundler#1537
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##### Use with different standard C libraries
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The binary versions of this gem are linked against the most used standard
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library - glibc. Currently rubygems does not differentiate binary gems by
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standard library so we have no way of distributing different binaries for
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differnt standard libraries.
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What this means is that if you're running a distro that does not use glibc
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(like Alpine Linux), you'll have to use a source version of the gem.
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### Requirements
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Building the v8 library from source imposes the following requirements:

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