release: rc-1.7

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index dfeb2df..0014d23 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -21,10 +21,11 @@ libraries.  For a summary of all options, run `sh configure --help'.
 
 You can specify Makefile variables by setting the corresponding
 environment variables.  For example, you might want to set `CC=cc', to
-prevent configure looking for gcc, or set an initial value for `LIBS',
-as in the example below.  It is a good idea to specify static linking
-(unless you are linking against a dynamic readline library)---if you are
-using gcc, you can do this by setting `CFLAGS=-static'.
+prevent configure looking for gcc, or set an initial value for
+`LDFLAGS', as in the example below.  It is a good idea to specify
+static linking (unless you are linking against a dynamic readline
+library)---if you are using gcc, you can do this by setting
+`CFLAGS=-static'.
 
 Here are the configure options you may want to use, in approximately
 descending order of usefulness.
@@ -135,6 +136,10 @@ trip' to do this.  This will produce some output, and should end with
 "trip is complete".  If the trip instead ends with "trip took a wrong
 turn..."  please contact the maintainer.
 
+In this release, `make trip' will fail on a file system which does not
+implement Unix semantics (specifically permissions bits).  This means
+that `make trip' is not useful under CygWin, for instance.
+
 
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