Merge pull request #1807 from mattpolzin/correct-gmp-install-directions

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@ -10,10 +10,12 @@ The requirements are:
- A Scheme compiler; either Chez Scheme (default), or Racket.
- `bash`, `GNU make`, `sha256sum` and `GMP`. On Linux, you probably already
have this. On macOS and major BSD flavours, you can install them using a
have these. On macOS and major BSD flavours, you can install them using a
package manager: for instance, on macOS, you can install with the
`brew install coreutils gmp` and on OpenBSD, with the `pkg_add coreutils
bash gmake gmp` command.
bash gmake gmp` command. You specifically need the dev GMP library, which
means on some systems the package you need to install will be named
something more like `libgmp3-dev`.
On Windows, it has been reported that installing via `MSYS2` works
[MSYS2](https://www.msys2.org/). On Windows older than Windows 8, you may need to