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diff --git a/web/manual.m4 b/web/manual.m4
index 041457e6..5a348bb9 100644
--- a/web/manual.m4
+++ b/web/manual.m4
@@ -291,10 +291,20 @@ libmad) is needed for para_server if you only want to stream MP3 or WMA
 files. Also, it's fine to use para_server on a box without sound card.
 
 Next, install the paraslash package on all machines, you'd like this
-software to run on:
+software to run on. If you compile from a released tarball, execute
 
 	(./configure && make) > /dev/null
 
+When compiling from git or from snapshots downloaded via gitweb,
+the above command will not work because the configure script is not
+included in the git repository. In this case the following command
+should be used instead:
+
+	./autogen.sh
+
+This runs autoconf to generate the configure script, then runs it as
+above. Therefore you'll need autoconf for this to work.
+
 There should be no errors but probably some warnings about missing
 packages which usually implies that not all audio formats will be
 supported. If headers or libs are installed at unusual locations you
@@ -494,7 +504,7 @@ including ssh and gpg. An RSA key consists in fact of two keys,
 called the public key and the private key. A message can be encrypted
 with either key and only the counterpart of that key can decrypt
 the message. While RSA can be used for both signing and encrypting
-a message, paraslash only uses RSA only for the latter purpose. The
+a message, paraslash uses RSA only for the latter purpose. The
 RSA public key encryption and signatures algorithms are defined in
 detail in RFC 2437.