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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 06357cfe..7c6258f3 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ As with any autoconfiguring GNU software, installation is as easy as this:
  # make install
 
 Known to work with:
-  - Linux/x86, EGCS-1.1.x and GCC 2-95.x
+  - Linux on x86, Alpha and Sparc using GCC 2-95.x.
 Known not to work with:
   - GCC 2.7.x or earlier because proper exception support is missing there.
 
@@ -51,11 +51,11 @@ also depending on optimization.  To give you a rough idea of what you
 have to expect the following table may be helpful.  It was measured on
 an Athlon/800MHz with "enough" memory:
 
-step:         | GCC optimization level:  | comment:
-              |  -O0   |  -O1   |  -O2   |
---------------+--------+--------+--------+-------------------------------
-make          |   ~4m  |   ~5m  |   ~6m  | building shared and static lib
-make check    |  ~20m  |  ~11m  |  ~12m  | largely due to compilation
+step          | GCC optimization  | comment
+              |   -O1   |   -O2   |
+--------------+---------+---------+----------------------------------------
+make          |   ~6m   |   ~8m   | shared and static library
+make check    |   ~8m   |  ~12m   | largely due to compilation
 
 
 COMMON PROBLEMS
@@ -80,3 +80,18 @@ 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.
 
+Problems with missing standard header files
+-------------------------------------------
+
+Building GiNaC requires many standard header files.  If you get a
+configure error complaining about such missing files your compiler and
+library are probably not up to date enough and it's no worth
+continuing.  If the only file missing is <sstream>, however, there is
+a solution.  GCC-2.95.2 and earlier don't ship with this file.  A
+working implementation has been available since GCC-2.95.3.  GCC-3.0
+and later have an even better, fully standard-conforming
+implementation, by default.  If you are stuck with GCC-2.95.2 or
+earlier and you cannot upgrade your compiler we recommend obtaining
+the libstdc++-v2 <sstream> header written by Magnus Fromreide.  It was
+posted to the gcc-patches mailing list on November 21 2000:
+<http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-11/msg01152.html>.