X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=configure;h=64816e0ffeb72cd1ab03ad4b3f57448d36e281b1;hb=72edf82cd0d102405e962ea266eb00f5eb2d1f3c;hp=e55f067e4bf696fe8c35228771eebf24804ec9a6;hpb=ea124966e73fdfaf926211c3c499fe1dd522a05c;p=notmuch

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index e55f067e..64816e0f 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -7,14 +7,16 @@ We hope that the process of building and installing notmuch is quick
 and smooth so that you can soon be reading and processing your email
 more efficiently than ever.
 
-If anything goes wrong in this process, please do as much as you can
-to figure out what could be different on your machine compared to
-those of the notmuch developers. Then, please email those details to
-the Notmuch list (notmuch@notmuchmail.org) so that we can hopefully make
-future versions of notmuch easier for you to use.
+If anything goes wrong in the configure process, you can override any
+decisions it makes by manually editing the Makefile.config file that
+it creates. Also please do as much as you can to figure out what could
+be different on your machine compared to those of the notmuch
+developers. Then, please email those details to the Notmuch list
+(notmuch@notmuchmail.org) so that we can hopefully make future
+versions of notmuch easier for you to use.
 
-We'll now investigate your system to find verify that various software
-components that notmuch relies on are available.
+We'll now investigate your system to verify that all required
+dependencies are available:
 
 EOF
 
@@ -104,8 +106,8 @@ with a command such as:
 	sudo apt-get install pkg-config
 
 But if pkg-config is not available for your system, then you will need
-to manually edit the notmuch Makefile to set NOTMUCH_CFLAGS and
-NOTMUCH_LDFLAGS to the correct values without calling pkg-config.
+to manually edit the notmuch Makefile to set the variables such as
+CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to the correct values without calling pkg-config.
 
 EOF
     fi