diff --git a/docs/development/build-instructions-linux.md b/docs/development/build-instructions-linux.md
index 06780ba55ec8..9c6dd14d160e 100644
--- a/docs/development/build-instructions-linux.md
+++ b/docs/development/build-instructions-linux.md
@@ -80,6 +80,13 @@ this:
 $ sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib g++-multilib
 ```
 
+If you got an error like this:
+````
+/usr/bin/ld: vendor/download/libchromiumcontent/Release/libchromiumcontent.so: undefined reference to symbol 'gconf_client_get'
+//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgconf-2.so.4: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
+````
+libchromiumcontent.so is build with clang 3.0 which is incompatible with newer versions of clang. Try using clang 3.0, default version in Ubuntu 12.04.
+
 ## Tests
 
 ```bash