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diff --git a/nt/install b/nt/install
index 624d04264d1dfd8218f5b5bc5ae2848f20b59736..d26b07430317b0484ab83283a15acebb1dc1ae09 100644 (file)
--- a/nt/install
+++ b/nt/install
@@ -13,7 +13,10 @@ Configuring:
     environment variables, as is customary for use with Windows compilers.
 
 (2) Choose the directory into which Emacs will be installed, and
-    edit makefile.def to define INSTALL_DIR to be this directory.  Note 
+    edit makefile.def to define INSTALL_DIR to be this directory.  
+    (Alternatively, if you have INSTALL_DIR set as an environment
+    variable, the build process will ignore the value in makefile.def
+    and use the value of the environment variable instead.)  Note 
     that if it is not installed in the directory in which it is built,
     the ~16 MB of lisp files will be copied into the installation directory.