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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 00380e3..e7fc6bd 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ also read the README file specific to that system.
 
 If there is a hint file for your system (in the hints/ directory) you
 should also read that hint file for specific information for your
-system.  (Unixware users should use the svr4.sh hint file.)
+system.  (Unixware users should use the svr4.sh or the svr5.sh hint file.)
 Additional information is in the Porting/ directory.
 
 =head1 WARNING:  This version requires an extra step to build old extensions.
@@ -319,7 +319,15 @@ It may seem obvious, but Perl is useful only when users can easily
 find it.  It's often a good idea to have both /usr/bin/perl and
 /usr/local/bin/perl be symlinks to the actual binary.  Be especially
 careful, however, not to overwrite a version of perl supplied by your
-vendor unless you are sure you know what you are doing.
+vendor unless you are sure you know what you are doing.  If you insist
+on replacing your vendor's perl, useful information on how it was
+configured may be found with
+
+	perl -V:config_args
+
+(Check the output carefully, however, since this doesn't preserve
+spaces in arguments to Configure.  For that, you have to look
+carefully at config_arg1, config_arg2, etc.)
 
 By default, Configure will not try to link /usr/bin/perl to
 the current version of perl.  You can turn on that behavior by running