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+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -10,13 +10,20 @@ different or older compiler you are on your own. Note that you may have to
 use the same compiler you compiled CLN with because of differing
 name-mangling schemes.
 
+To build the GiNaC tutorial and reference manual the doxygen utility
+(it can be downloaded from http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen) and
+TeX are necessary.
+
 Known to work with:
- - Linux on x86, Alpha and Sparc using GCC 3.0.x, 3.1 and 3.2.
+ - Linux on x86, Alpha and Sparc using GCC 3.x and 4.0.
 
 Known not to work with:
  - GCC 2.96 or earlier because proper exception and standard library support
    is missing there.
 
+If you install from CVS, you also need GNU autoconf (>=2.59) and
+automake (>=1.7) to be installed.
+
 
 INSTALLATION
 ============
@@ -30,11 +37,12 @@ To install from a source .tar.bz2 distribution:
 
 To install from CVS:
 
- $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvsthep.physik.uni-mainz.de:/home/cvs login
+ $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.ginac.de:/home/cvs/GiNaC login
  [enter "anoncvs" as the password]
- $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvsthep.physik.uni-mainz.de:/home/cvs co GiNaC
+ $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.ginac.de:/home/cvs/GiNaC co GiNaC
  $ cd GiNaC
- $ ./autogen.sh
+ $ autoreconf -i
+ $ ./configure
  $ make
  [become root if necessary]
  # make install
@@ -96,12 +104,13 @@ install CLN properly on your system before continuing with GiNaC.
 Problems building ginsh
 -----------------------
 
-The most common reason why this doesn't succeed is the absence of
+The most common reason why this doesn't succeed is the absence of GNU
 libreadline and/or the corresponding header files. Depending on what your
 system/distribution is, you will have to install a package called
 libreadline and maybe libreadline-dev. If your system's vendor doesn't
 supply such packages, go to <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/> and compile
-it yourself.
+it yourself. Note that non-GNU versions of libreadline (in particular
+one shipped with Mac OS X) are not supported at the moment.
 
 Problems with missing standard header files
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