- Portability fixes for Irix 5.3 (now compiles OK!)

[openssh.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 1521dc6e39f1e95febe121a56bf57dac96ae8de4..17353d9e13bbdc17e0f9f317f885dc198f63b147 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -105,6 +105,11 @@ support. You will need libwrap.a and tcpd.h installed.
 --with-md5-passwords will enable the use of MD5 passwords. Enable this
 if your operating system uses MD5 passwords without using PAM.
 
+If you need to pass special options to the compiler or linker, you
+can specify these as enviornment variables before running ./configure.
+For example:
+
+CFLAGS="-O -m486" LFLAGS="-s" ./configure
 
 3. Configuration
 ----------------