From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 20:11:47 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: INSTALL: Add a pointer to ./configure --help
X-Git-Tag: 0.1~59
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=21a92c6cce565d822355b35ab885213b8e7a1ddd;p=notmuch.git

INSTALL: Add a pointer to ./configure --help

We have some good documentation in ./configure --help, so we should
direct users to it.
---

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index c0b67a31..cadd3cec 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -9,10 +9,14 @@ sequence of:
 	make
 	sudo make install
 
-You can even skip the configure step if all of the dependencies of
-Notmuch are satisfied. If they are not, the configure script will
-notice that and provide instructions on where to obtain the necessary
-dependencies.
+In fact, if you don't plan to pass any arguments to the configure
+script, then you can skip that step and just start with "make", (which
+will call configure for you). See this command:
+
+	./configure --help
+
+for detailed documentation of the things you can control at the
+configure stage.
 
 notmuch.el installation
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