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 This is a library implementing the intermediate representation
 FIRM developed at IPD Goos, Uni Karlsruhe.
 
-Call make lib to construct the library.  This creates a file
-libfirm.a and extracts all necessary header files to ./include.
+Create an architecture dependent directory (eg 'mkdir i686-linux') an cd
+to it. Call ../configure with wanted features (see ../configure --help
+for more hints). Call 'make depend; make' to construct the library. This
+creates a file libfirm.a
 
 To test the library goto ./testprograms and make and run the
 test examples placed there:
 
-make lib
+make depend; make
 cd testprograms
 make
 make run
 
+If you have set up the include and libdir using configure you can install
+the library and its headers by 'make install'.  This is encouraged if the
+library is hooked up to any other modules, e.g., a front end.  Only the
+external headers are guaranteed to remain stable, the implementation might
+change.
+
 For more documentation see /include/firm.h.
 To generate FIRM code from a compiler frontend read the documentation
 in ./include/ircons.h.
-About Firm you can learn in UKA tech-report 1999-??.
+About Firm you can learn in UKA tech-report 1999-44.