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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index ad7aeb2d7a..dfc1a8b509 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -122,11 +122,13 @@ flags:
        --with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY/lib --with-extra-inc=DIRECTORY/include
     If DIRECTORY is not specified, the current prefix is used.
 
-  o --with-lyxname=STRING sets the name of the installed LyX binary and 
-    of the LyX library directory to STRING. This may be used to
-    compile lyx as lyx-1.1 and avoid clashes with earlier/later
-    versions. Default is "lyx". 
-
+  o --with-lyx-suffix=STRING adds the given suffix to the names of the 
+    LyX binary and scripts, and the library directory. For example,
+    "--with-lyx-suffix=1.1.6" would install a binary "lyx-1.1.6", and
+    create a directory "/usr/share/lyx-1.1.6", install "reLyX-1.1.6" etc.
+    Additionally, LyX will look for the user configuration file in e.g.
+    "$HOME/.lyx-1.1.6". This feature is useful for installing more than
+    one version of LyX on the same machine.
 
 There are also flags to control the internationalization support in
 LyX:
@@ -291,13 +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
@@ -308,8 +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
@@ -317,7 +346,8 @@ notify us.
 
   o On Tru64 Unix, you may have to compile with
     --with-included-string to work around a Tru64 linker limitation
-    (the STL string template creates names which may be too long).
+    (the STL string template creates names which may be too long). We
+    also had reports that it helps with gcc 2.95.2 on solaris 2.6. 
 
   o On Tru64 Unix with cxx, you may have a compilation error in
     lyx_main.C if you have GNU gettext installed. This is due to a bug