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diff --git a/configure b/configure
index cd4a30e2..488b3bd7 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -3,6 +3,16 @@
 CC=${CC:-gcc}
 CXX=${CXX:-g++}
 
+# defaults
+PREFIX=/usr/local
+
+# option parsing
+for option; do
+    if [ "${option%%=*}" = '--prefix' ] ; then
+	PREFIX="${option#*=}"
+    fi
+done
+
 cat <<EOF
 Welcome to Notmuch, a system for indexing, searching and tagging your email.
 
@@ -106,14 +116,20 @@ EOF
     fi
     cat <<EOF
 
-On a modern, package-based operating system such as Debian, you can
-install all of the dependencies with the following simple command
-line:
+With any luck, you're using a modern, package-based operating system
+that has all of these packages available in the distribution. In that
+case a simple command will install everything you need. For example:
+
+On Debian and similar systems:
 
 	sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.4-dev libtalloc-dev
 
-On other systems, a similar command can be used, but the details of the 
-package names may be different, (such as "devel" in place of "dev").
+Or on Fedora and similar systems:
+
+	sudo yum install xapian-core-devel gmime-devel libtalloc-devel
+
+On other systems, similar commands can be used, but the details of the
+package names may be different.
 
 EOF
     if [ $have_pkg_config -eq 0 ]; then
@@ -124,6 +140,8 @@ the various libraries needed by notmuch. It's possible you simply need
 to install pkg-config with a command such as:
 
 	sudo apt-get install pkg-config
+Or:
+	sudo yum install pkgconfig
 
 But if pkg-config is not available for your system, then you will need
 to modify the configure script to manually set the cflags and ldflags
@@ -178,7 +196,7 @@ CC = ${CC}
 CXX = ${CXX}
 
 # The prefix to which notmuch should be installed
-prefix = /usr/local
+prefix = ${PREFIX}
 
 # The directory to which emacs lisp files should be installed
 emacs_lispdir=${emacs_lispdir}
@@ -195,7 +213,7 @@ XAPIAN_LDFLAGS = ${xapian_ldflags}
 GMIME_CFLAGS = ${gmime_cflags}
 GMIME_LDFLAGS = ${gmime_ldflags}
 
-# Flags needed to compile and linke against talloc
+# Flags needed to compile and link against talloc
 TALLOC_CFLAGS = ${talloc_cflags}
 TALLOC_LDFLAGS = ${talloc_ldflags}
 
@@ -206,11 +224,11 @@ HAVE_VALGRIND = ${have_valgrind}
 VALGRIND_CFLAGS = ${valgrind_cflags}
 
 # Combined flags for compiling and linking against all of the above
-override CFLAGS += -DHAVE_GETLINE=\$(HAVE_GETLINE) \$(GMIME_CFLAGS)      \\
+CONFIGURE_CFLAGS = -DHAVE_GETLINE=\$(HAVE_GETLINE) \$(GMIME_CFLAGS)      \\
 		   \$(TALLOC_CFLAGS) -DHAVE_VALGRIND=\$(HAVE_VALGRIND)   \\
 		   \$(VALGRIND_CFLAGS)
-override CXXFLAGS += -DHAVE_GETLINE=\$(HAVE_GETLINE) \$(GMIME_CFLAGS)    \\
+CONFIGURE_CXXFLAGS = -DHAVE_GETLINE=\$(HAVE_GETLINE) \$(GMIME_CFLAGS)    \\
 		     \$(TALLOC_CFLAGS) -DHAVE_VALGRIND=\$(HAVE_VALGRIND) \\
 		     \$(VALGRIND_CFLAGS) \$(XAPIAN_CXXFLAGS)
-override LDFLAGS += \$(GMIME_LDFLAGS) \$(TALLOC_LDFLAGS) \$(XAPIAN_LDFLAGS)
+CONFIGURE_LDFLAGS =  \$(GMIME_LDFLAGS) \$(TALLOC_LDFLAGS) \$(XAPIAN_LDFLAGS)
 EOF