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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 2f84382e0d..dfc1a8b509 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -293,13 +293,39 @@ notify us.
     the xforms or Xpm library, use the --with-extra-lib and --with-extra-inc 
     options of configure to specify where these libraries reside.  
 
-  o Configure will seemingly fail to find xpm.h and forms.h on linux if
-    you did a 'make mrproper' in the kernel directory, because this
-    removes some symbolic links that are needed for compilation. A 'make
-    symlinks' in linux kernel sources fixes that.
+  o Configure will seemingly fail to find xpm.h and forms.h on linux
+    if the kernel headers are not available. Two cases are possible: 
+
+      - you have not installed the kernel sources. The you should
+        install them or at least the kernel-headers package (or
+        whatever it is called in your distribution).
+
+      - you have the sources, but you did a 'make mrproper' in the
+	kernel directory (this  this removes some symbolic links that
+	are needed for compilation). A 'make symlinks' in linux kernel
+	sources fixes that. 
+
+  o if you get an error message when compiling LyX that looks like this :
+
+    ../../src/minibuffer.h:17: using directive `Object' introduced
+    ambiguous type `_ObjectRec *'
+
+    then you need to upgrade the version of the xforms library you have
+    installed.
+
+  o If you are using RedHat 7.0 and the option --with-frontend=kde, you
+    will need to configure LyX as follows :
+
+	export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-1.45
+	export CC="egcs -L/usr/lib"
+	export CXX="egcs++ -L/usr/lib"
+	./configure --with-frontend=kde 
+
+    If you your version of gcc-c++ is > 2.96-69, you may not need to do
+    this.
 
   o If you have GNU gettext installed on your system (e.g. on linux),
-    you will get tons of warnings like:
+    you may get tons of warnings like:
 
     bullet_forms.C:101: warning: passing `char *' to argument 1 of
     `__builtin_constant_p(int)' lacks a cast
@@ -310,8 +336,9 @@ notify us.
 
   o It is possible to compile lyx with Tru64 Unix cxx compiler
     version 6.2, provided one uses
-	CXX=cxx
-	CXXFLAGS='-ptr /tmp/lyx_cxx_repository -std strict_ansi -g -O'
+	CXX='cxx -std strict_ansi'
+	CXXFLAGS='-ptr /tmp/lyx_cxx_repository -g'
+	CC=cc
 
     Note that this will not work when compiling directly from the cvs
     repository, due to the tricks used by automake for dependencies. Ask