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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index c1a91f0..e7a779b 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -14,6 +14,18 @@ You should check the MACHINES file to see if there are any specific
 build instructions for your operating system.  To build nmh, you will
 need an ANSI C compiler such as gcc.
 
+0) If you have obtained nmh by checking it out of CVS, you will
+   need to run the GNU autotools to regenerate some files.
+   (If your directory already contains a file 'config.h.in'
+   then this has already been done and you do not need to do it.)
+   You can regenerate the files by running the command
+
+   ./autogen.sh
+
+   (Note that if you're doing nmh development, you should look at
+   docs/README.developers, since there is other developer-friendly
+   advice there as well.)
+
 1) From the top-level source directory, run the command
 
    ./configure [options]
@@ -171,14 +183,15 @@ Options for configure
      Enable debugging support.
 
 --enable-masquerade[='draft_from mmailid username_extension']    
-     If this option is not specified, the mts.conf file will contain the line
-     "masquerade: " (with no value), which may be manually edited later.  You
-     may find it convenient to specify a value at configure-time, however, so
-     that each time nmh is reinstalled, the right value will be there.
+     If this option is disabled, the mts.conf file will contain the
+     line "masquerade: " (with no value), which may be manually edited
+     later.  You may find it convenient to specify a value at
+     configure-time, however, so that each time nmh is reinstalled,
+     the right value will be there.  By default, it is enabled.
 
-     The above usage shows all three masquerade options being specified, but any
-     subset of the three may be specified.  If you do want to enable all three,
-     you can simply use `configure --enable-masquerade' as a shortcut.
+     The above usage shows the default, with all three masquerade
+     options being specified.  Any subset of the three may be
+     specified.
 
      See the mh-tailor(5) man page for full documentation of "masquerade:".
 
@@ -246,6 +259,17 @@ Options for configure
      If you wish to use a transport agent other than sendmail, you will
      need to use a `sendmail wrapper'.
 
+--with-ndbm=LIB    (DEFAULT is to autodetect)
+--with-ndbmheader=HEADER     (DEFAULT is to autodetect)
+     Specify the header file (eg ndbm.h) and library (eg ndbm) to use
+     to compile against the ndbm database library. By default, configure
+     will try various possibilities until it finds one that works; this
+     option only needs to be specified if the autodetection fails or
+     makes the wrong choice.
+
+     If either of these options is given then the other must also be
+     specified.
+
 --with-pager=PAGER    (DEFAULT is more)
      Specify the default pager (file lister) to use.  If this option
      is not given, then the configuration process will search for the