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diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 1097b7c4..fd194ab0 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 
+CC=${CC:-gcc}
+CXX=${CXX:-g++}
+
 cat <<EOF
 Welcome to Notmuch, a system for indexing, searching and tagging your email.
 
@@ -103,14 +106,20 @@ 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
@@ -121,6 +130,8 @@ 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
@@ -139,7 +150,7 @@ EOF
 fi
 
 printf "Checking for getline... "
-if gcc -o config/have_getline config/have_getline.c > /dev/null 2>&1
+if ${CC} -o config/have_getline config/have_getline.c > /dev/null 2>&1
 then
     printf "Yes.\n"
     have_getline=1
@@ -168,6 +179,12 @@ cat > Makefile.config <<EOF
 # changes, (and this could happen by simply calling "make" if the
 # configure script is updated).
 
+# The C compiler to use
+CC = ${CC}
+
+# The C++ compiler to use
+CXX = ${CXX}
+
 # The prefix to which notmuch should be installed
 prefix = /usr/local
 
@@ -186,7 +203,7 @@ 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}