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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index d4d1e881..09b10d20 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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--- Copyright (c) 1998-2010,2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
+-- Copyright (c) 1998-2011,2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
 --                                                                           --
 -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a   --
 -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the             --
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.156 2011/05/07 19:39:37 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.162 2012/01/22 00:27:58 tom Exp $
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              How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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@@ -407,13 +407,14 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
 
     --disable-tic-depends
 	When building shared libraries, normally the tic library is linked to
-	depend upon the ncurses library (and in turn, on the term-library if
-	the --with-termlib option was given).  The tic- and term-libraries
-	ABI does not depend on the --enable-widec option. Some packagers have
-	used this to reduce the number of library files which are packaged
-	by using only one copy of those libraries.  To make this work properly,
+	depend upon the ncurses library (or equivalently, on the tinfo-library
+	if the --with-termlib option was given).  The tic- and tinfo-library
+	ABIs do not depend on the --enable-widec option.  Some packagers have
+	used this to reduce the number of library files which are packaged by
+	using only one copy of those libraries.  To make this work properly,
 	the tic library must be built without an explicit dependency on the
-	ncurses (or ncursesw) library.  Use this configure option to do that.
+	underlying library (ncurses vs ncursesw, tinfo vs tinfow).  Use this
+	configure option to do that.
 	For example
 		configure --with-ticlib --with-shared --disable-tic-depends
 
@@ -616,6 +617,12 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
 	match is found in the terminfo database.  See also the --enable-getcap
 	and --enable-getcap-cache options.
 
+	Termcap support requires run-time parsing rather than loading
+	predigested data.  If you have specified --with-ticlib, then you
+	cannot have termcap support since run-time parsing is done in the
+	tic library, which is intentionally not part of normal linkage
+	dependencies.
+
     --enable-warnings
 	Turn on GCC compiler warnings.  There should be only a few.
 
@@ -824,7 +831,17 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
 	NOTE: a few systems build shared libraries with fixed pathnames; this
 	option probably will not work for those configurations.
 
-     --with-libtool[=XXX]
+    --with-lib-prefix=XXX
+	OS/2 EMX used a different naming convention from most Unix-like
+	platforms.  It required that the "lib" part of a library name was
+	omitted.  Newer EMX as part of eComStation does not follow that
+	convention.  Use this option to override the configure script's
+	assumptions about the library-prefix.  If this option is omitted, it
+	uses the original OS/2 EMX convention for that platform.  Use
+	"--with-lib-prefix=lib" for the newer EMX in eComStation.  Use
+	"--without-lib-prefix" to suppress it for other odd platforms.
+
+    --with-libtool[=XXX]
 	Generate libraries with libtool.  If this option is selected, then it
 	overrides all other library model specifications.  Note that libtool
 	must already be installed, uses makefile rules dependent on GNU make,
@@ -904,6 +921,10 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
     --with-pkg-config=[DIR]
 	Check for pkg-config, optionally specifying its path.
 
+    --with-pkg-config-libdir=[DIR]
+	If pkg-config was found, override the automatic check for its library
+	path.
+
     --with-profile
 	Generate profile-libraries These are named by adding "_p" to the root,
 	e.g., libncurses_p.a
@@ -1024,6 +1045,8 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
 	install as "ncurses.h" and modify the installed headers and manpages
 	accordingly.
 
+	Likewise, do not install an alias "curses" for the ncurses manpage.
+
     --without-cxx
 	XSI curses declares "bool" as part of the interface.  C++ also declares
 	"bool".  Neither specifies the size and type of booleans, but both