diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9adc3fcab0..539cd545f6 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-05-29  John Levon  <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* INSTALL: document that --program-* and frontends
+	don't work (yet ...)
+
 2002-05-29  Jean-Marc Lasgouttes  <lasgouttes@freesurf.fr>
 
 	* NEWS: add info about the 1.1.6 series
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 075d5e4a3d..589a396519 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ instead of 2.[12], and this causes occasional crashes.
 
 In addition, you must have libXpm version 4.7 or newer.
 
+Note that the Qt and Gnome frontends are still under development, and
+as a result are only useful if you want to help out with testing and
+development.
+ 
 If you make modifications to files in src/ (for example by applying a
 patch), you will need to have the GNU gettext package installed, due
 to some dependencies in the makefiles. You can find the latest version
@@ -140,6 +144,10 @@ flags:
     the same system. You can optionally specify a "version" of your own,
     by doing something like : ./configure --with-version-suffix=-latestcvs
 
+    Note that the standard configure options --program-prefix,--program-suffix
+    and the others will not affect the shared LyX directory etc. so it
+    is recommended that you use --with-version-suffix (or --prefix) instead.
+
   o --enable-optimization=VALUE enables you to set optimization to a
     higher level as the default (-O), for example --enable-optimization=-O3.