From 626637c8d3993c04ef77d752dae9af17aac7588c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?S=C3=A9bastien=20Villemot?= <sebastien@dynare.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:36:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Manual: add note about required Octave version under Windows
 and macOS

(cherry picked from commit b63ae5b619effbcc8b0d8308d3eca392d88ead77)
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 doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst b/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst
index 3f8e9015fd..5db8108c4e 100644
--- a/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst
+++ b/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst
@@ -15,7 +15,10 @@ are necessary in that case.
 In order to run Dynare, you need one of the following:
 
 * MATLAB version 7.9 (R2009b) or above;
-* Octave version 4.2.1 or above, with the statistics package from `Octave-Forge`_.
+* Octave version 4.2.1 or above, with the statistics package from
+  `Octave-Forge`_. Note however that the Dynare installers for Windows and
+  macOS require a more specific version of Octave, as indicated on the download
+  page.
 
 The following optional extensions are also useful to benefit from
 extra features, but are in no way required:
-- 
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