-<http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/>, which comes with Mac OS X and
-most of the modern Linux/Unix distributions. If you do not have this
-library installed, you can still compile the rest of SAMtools by
-manually modifying one line in Makefile.
+<http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/>, which comes with Mac OS X and most of
+the modern Linux/Unix distributions. If you do not have this library installed,
+you can still compile the rest of SAMtools by manually changing:
+`-D_CURSES_LIB=1' to `-D_CURSES_LIB=0' at the line starting with `DFLAGS=', and
+comment out the line starting with `LIBCURSES='.