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Minor edits to BUILDING.md to keep sentences short and clear.

PR-URL: #24243
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### Supported platforms

The community does not build or test against end-of-life distributions (EoL).
Thus, we do not recommend that you use Node.js on end-of-life or unsupported
platforms in production.
For production applications, run Node.js on supported platforms only.

| System | Support type | Version | Architectures | Notes |
|--------------|--------------|----------------------------------|----------------------|------------------|
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support on x86_64 and ia32.

* gas (GNU assembler) version 2.23 or higher
* xcode version 5.0 or higher
* Xcode version 5.0 or higher
* llvm version 3.3 or higher
* nasm version 2.10 or higher in Windows

Otherwise `configure` will fail with an error. This can be avoided by
either providing a newer assembler as per the list above or by
using the `--openssl-no-asm` flag.
If compiling without one of the above, use `configure` with the
`--openssl-no-asm` flag. Otherwise, `configure` will fail.

The forthcoming OpenSSL-1.1.1 will have different requirements. Please refer to
https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.1/man3/OPENSSL_ia32cap.html for details.

## Building Node.js on supported platforms

*Note:* All prerequisites can be easily installed by following
[this bootstrapping guide](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/tools/bootstrap/README.md).
The [bootstrapping guide](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/tools/bootstrap/README.md)
explains how to install all prerequisites.

### Unix/macOS

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* Python 2.6 or 2.7
* GNU Make 3.81 or newer

On macOS, you will need to install the `Xcode Command Line Tools` by running
On macOS, install the `Xcode Command Line Tools` by running
`xcode-select --install`. Alternatively, if you already have the full Xcode
installed, you can find them under the menu `Xcode -> Open Developer Tool ->
More Developer Tools...`. This step will install `clang`, `clang++`, and
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$ make -j4
```

Running `make` with the `-j4` flag will cause it to run 4 compilation jobs
concurrently which may significantly reduce build time. The number after `-j`
can be changed to best suit the number of processor cores on your machine. If
you run into problems running `make` with concurrency, try running it without
the `-j4` flag. See the
[GNU Make Documentation](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Parallel.html)
for more information.
The `-j4` option will cause `make` to run 4 simultaneous compilation jobs which
may reduce build time. For more information, see the
[GNU Make Documentation](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Parallel.html).

Note that the above requires that `python` resolve to Python 2.6 or 2.7
and not a newer version.
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