diff --git a/INSTALL-LINUX b/INSTALL-LINUX
index ffe82f9e7..7cc964a3c 100644
--- a/INSTALL-LINUX
+++ b/INSTALL-LINUX
@@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ $ make clean
 $ qmake
 $ make
 
+When build first time you get number of error messages on .qm files missing:
+    "RCC: Error in 'Resources/application.qrc': Cannot find file 'translations/gc_fr.qm'"
+You can ignore these messages for your build. The .qm files will be created during the
+build at a later point in time via the "lrelease" command you configured in gcconfig.pri)
+
 You will now have a release3 binary but with none of the release3 dependencies compiled in.
 Get latest GOLDEN CHEETAH source files
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diff --git a/INSTALL-MAC b/INSTALL-MAC
index ab4e90e00..e463a9834 100644
--- a/INSTALL-MAC
+++ b/INSTALL-MAC
@@ -208,6 +208,11 @@ $ cd .. #this should put you in the top level dir containing this file
 $ qmake -recursive
 $ make
 
+When build first time you get number of error messages on .qm files missing:
+    "RCC: Error in 'Resources/application.qrc': Cannot find file 'translations/gc_fr.qm'"
+You can ignore these messages for your build. The .qm files will be created during the
+build at a later point in time via the "lrelease" command you configured in gcconfig.pri)
+
 If make fails to find a Makefile then qmake is configured, by default, to create
 an xcode project file. You will need to change the qmake command above to tell it
 to create a makefile with the following: