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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 4e8f88338..fce6bc39d 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -13,6 +13,15 @@ that uses $prefix, the built results have some paths encoded,
 which are derived from $prefix, so "make all; make prefix=/usr
 install" would not work.
 
+Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to
+set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead
+
+	$ make configure ;# as yourself
+	$ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
+	$ make all doc ;# as yourself
+	# make install install-doc ;# as root
+
+
 Issues of note:
 
  - git normally installs a helper script wrapper called "git", which
@@ -39,7 +48,7 @@ Issues of note:
 
 	GIT_EXEC_PATH=`pwd`
 	PATH=`pwd`:$PATH
-	GITPERLLIB=`pwd`/perl/blib/lib:`pwd`/perl/blib/arch/auto/Git
+	GITPERLLIB=`pwd`/perl/blib/lib
 	export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH GITPERLLIB
 
  - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external
@@ -57,7 +66,7 @@ Issues of note:
 
 	- "libcurl" and "curl" executable.  git-http-fetch and
 	  git-fetch use them.  If you do not use http
-	  transfer, you are probabaly OK if you do not have
+	  transfer, you are probably OK if you do not have
 	  them.
 
 	- expat library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock
@@ -82,7 +91,7 @@ Issues of note:
 	  git, and if you only use git to track other peoples work you'll
 	  never notice the lack of it. 
 
-        - "wish", the TCL/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
+        - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
           history graphically
 
 	- "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net