diff --git a/INSTALL.swift b/INSTALL.swift
index db6c6677b202e55e76114373f3e037cf50de10cc..bf8dbc92f5ccb06f6988c5672e5fdac54d2d2598 100644
--- a/INSTALL.swift
+++ b/INSTALL.swift
@@ -154,6 +154,12 @@ before you can build it.
         distributing the threads among the different cores on each
         computing node.
 
+        Note that if you have libNUMA outside of the system include
+        directories it may fail to compile as the headers do not pass
+        the -Wstrict-prototype check of GCC. In that case you will need
+        to use --enable-compiler-warnings=yes configure option to stop
+        this being an error.
+
  - tcmalloc / jemalloc / TBBmalloc:
 	a build of the tcmalloc library (part of gperftools), jemalloc
 	or TBBmalloc can be used be used to obtain faster and more
diff --git a/doc/RTD/source/GettingStarted/compiling_code.rst b/doc/RTD/source/GettingStarted/compiling_code.rst
index c40f06965e15146c41bf210aec3b195032cef0e7..a0ce1c08eaf6b08a298ac4b720017273d4fa6559 100644
--- a/doc/RTD/source/GettingStarted/compiling_code.rst
+++ b/doc/RTD/source/GettingStarted/compiling_code.rst
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ METIS is used for domain decomposition and load balancing.
 
 libNUMA
 ~~~~~~~
-libNUMA is used to pin threads.
+libNUMA is used to pin threads (but see INSTALL.swift).
 
 GSL
 ~~~