diff --git a/MAINTENANCE b/MAINTENANCE
index 5b8c6a079a2d4066c356147a1293b265a114ccc0..c79accdff176eb47b3e648795ac1f9537bdce557 100644
--- a/MAINTENANCE
+++ b/MAINTENANCE
@@ -93,11 +93,14 @@ Some things are already explained in "configure.ac", in which I invested most of
 Choosing not to use libtool would require many changes, the first would be to change all "LTLIBRARIES" to "LIBRARIES" in all "Makefile.am"s.
 
 1) mips-sgi-irix6.5:
-a) The -lgl and -lGL libraries are required.
+  a) The -lgl and -lGL libraries are required.
+  b) The GNU Fortran compiler g77 produced n32-style code, which was not default for
+     the gcc. Recommended solution:
+    i) Adding -n32 option to "CFLAGS" and "LDFLAGS"
 
 2) i686-suse-linux:
-a) We used MesaGL and a BLAS lib from the SuSE distribution... The BLAS lib needed -lg2c to function properly.
+  a) We used MesaGL and a BLAS lib from the SuSE distribution... The BLAS lib needed -lg2c to function properly.
 
 3) sparc-sun-SunOS:
-a) For the xdr-Routines, the library -lnsl seemed necessary.
-b) In our case, "configure" did not automatically recognize the canonical system triplet. Calling "configure --build=sparc" worked.
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+  a) For the xdr-Routines, the library -lnsl seemed necessary.
+  b) In our case, "configure" did not automatically recognize the canonical system triplet. Calling "configure --build=sparc" worked.
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diff --git a/README b/README
index e990e7a980462d2098891b4ebf72ba52ff23059d..686857256abc717e55e1e2f28345931e04897351 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -64,7 +64,13 @@ The default installation path is also the build directory. This can be changed v
 
 Default library mode is static. Change this via
 
-  --enable-shared=PKGS.
+  --enable-shared=??
+
+where ?? is "yes" or "no".
+
+We recommend setting the environment variable "CFLAGS" to blank, so that "configure" does NOT automatically substitute a "-g" debugging option while compiling.
+
+
 
 
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 3150a77e4259afba484f45d878b2b76ed6d764c2..f6029869ed77fbe24073c086640598b4913e0e9d 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -60,23 +60,9 @@ AC_TYPE_SIGNAL
 # look for X11 library paths AND sets all necessary flags (X_CFLAGS) e.g.
 AC_PATH_XTRA
 
-# ******************************************************************************
-# Prevent -g from being set here automatically...
-# ******************************************************************************
-
-CFLAGS=
-FFLAGS=
-AM_CFLAGS=
-AM_FFLAGS=
-
 # ******************************************************************************
 # These are our own tests
 # ******************************************************************************
-#    The -n32 option was needed for SGIs:
-#    The g77 command produced new 32-bit objects whereas gcc defaulted to old
-#    32-bit objects. This caused warnings during making (symbol tables
-#    destroyed???)
-# ******************************************************************************
 
 plot_for_sun=true
 plot_for_ibm=false