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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 5d79c55e..ea43342e 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ Gnumeric files.
       0.18 and 0.19 have a bug that will prevent library detection,
       but other versions should be fine.
 
+      To cross-compile PSPP, you will likely need to set the
+      PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR environment variable to point to an
+      appropriate pkg-config for the cross-compilation environment.
+
     * zlib (http://www.zlib.net/).
 
     * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/).  
@@ -104,6 +108,19 @@ release.
   1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type
      `./configure' to configure the package for your system.
 
+     You may invoke `configure' with --help to see what options are
+     available.  The most common of these are listed under "Optional
+     Features", below.
+
+     If you installed some of the libraries that PSPP uses in a
+     non-standard location (on many systems, anywhere other than
+     /usr), you may need to provide some special flags to `configure'
+     to tell it where to find them.  For example, on GNU/Linux, if you
+     installed some libraries in /usr/local, then you need to invoke
+     it with at least the following options:
+
+	./configure LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib' CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/local/include'
+
      Running `configure' takes awhile.  While running, it prints some
      messages telling which features it is checking for.
 
@@ -209,6 +226,14 @@ Optional Features
     In these cases you can use --without-lib{xx} to force configure
     to disregard it.
 
+`--enable-anachronistic-dependencies'
+   If you use this option, some of the checks for dependent libraries
+   will be relaxed, permitting configure to succeed when older versions
+   of libraries are detected.   Use of this option is not recommended.
+   If you use it, some features may be missing and the build may fail
+   with obscure error messages.
+   
+
 Defining Variables
 ==================