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diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/INSTALL b/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/INSTALL
index 1a1da8c99e6..589599ed1de 100644
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/INSTALL
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/INSTALL
@@ -134,6 +134,8 @@ i386 family:
 	Linux (kernel 1.2.x) (1.8.86)
 	Linux (kernel 2.0.x, RedHat 4.2) (1.10)
 	Linux (kernel 2.0.x, RedHat 5.x) (1.10)
+	Linux (kernel 2.2.x, RedHat 6.x) (1.10.8)
+	Linux (kernel 2.2.x, RedHat 7.x) (1.11)
 	BSDI 4.0 (1.10.7)
 	FreeBSD 2.1.5-stable (1.8.87)
 	NextSTEP 3.3 (1.7)
@@ -146,6 +148,7 @@ i386 family:
 	Windows NT 3.51 service pack 4 (1.9)
 	Windows NT 3.51 service pack 5 (1.9) -- DOES NOT WORK (footnote 11)
 	Windows NT 4.0 (1.9 client and local)
+	Windows NT 4.0 (1.11 client and local - build & test, but no test suite)
 	Windows 95 (1.9 client and local)
 	QNX (1.9.1 + patches for strippath() and va_list)
 	OS/2 Version 3 using IBM C/C++ Tools 2.01 (1.8.86 + patches, client)
@@ -284,6 +287,14 @@ Building from source code under Unix:
     the --enable-encryption option.  This option is disabled by
     default.
 
+    If you want to disable automatic dependency tracking in the makefiles,
+    use the '--disable-dependency-tracking' option:
+
+	$ ./configure --disable-dependency-tracking
+
+    This avoids problems on some platforms.  See the note at the end of this
+    file on BSD.
+
     Try './configure --help' for further information on its usage.
 
     NOTE ON CVS's USE OF NDBM:
@@ -390,7 +401,7 @@ behaviour:
 
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-Building from source code under Windows NT/95:
+Building from source code under Windows NT/95/98/2000:
 
 You may find interesting information in windows-NT/README.
 
@@ -401,6 +412,14 @@ You may find interesting information in windows-NT/README.
 3) MSVC will place the executable file cvs.exe in WinRel, or whatever
    your target directory is.
 
+* From the top level directory, with MSVC++ 6.0 installed, something like the
+following also works:
+
+	C:\> vcvars32
+	C:\> nmake /f cvsnt.mak CFG="cvsnt - Win32 Debug"
+
+* You might also try http://wincvs.org & http://www.cvsnt.org
+
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 Building from source code under other platforms:
@@ -409,10 +428,25 @@ For OS/2, see os2/README and emx/README.
 
 For VMS, see README.VMS
 
-For Macintosh, see macintosh/README.MacCVS
+For Macintosh, see macintosh/README.MacCVS, or, since that file isn't there
+anymore, you might try http://wincvs.org .
 
 For a Java client, see jCVS (which is a separate package from CVS
 itself, but which might be preferable to the Macintosh port mentioned
 above, for example).
 
+                                  **** ****
+
+Builds are breaking on some systems (notably,
+BSD/OS thor.sdrc.com 4.0.1 BSDI BSD/OS 4.0.1 Kernel #3: Thu Mar  9 11:29:16 EST 2000
+) due to Automake's dependency tracking code.  The work around for this is to
+comile without it by passing the '--disable-dependency-tracking' option to
+configure:
+
+	$ ./configure --disable-dependency-tracking
+
+This will allow a compile but make will no longer be tracking header
+dependencies.  This means that if you make any changes to header files you may
+have to run 'make clean' before running a 'make' to get everything to compile.
+
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