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

[notmuch] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 64b8e362cc335f277ed2400e63bd37b898be9e3e..cadd3cec76ef43c7e804eb0aba66ecb0d7745595 100644 (file)
--- 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
 -----------------------
@@ -20,7 +24,9 @@ Installing the notmuch.el emacs lisp function systemwide:
 
        sudo make install-emacs
 
-Each user needs to add (require 'notmuch) in his ~/.emacs to activate it.
+Each user needs to add (require 'notmuch) in his ~/.emacs to make it
+available and then start emacs running notmuch with "emacs -f notmuch"
+or start notmuch from within emacs with "M-x notmuch".
 
 Dependencies
 ------------