-To compile abook you must have ncurses developement libraries installed.
-Starting from version 0.4.10 abook is know to compile with the native curses
-library of SUN Solaris and OpenBSD.
-
-If you compile with --enable-debug flag you should run abook like this:
-abook 2> debug or abook 2> /dev/null. Abook 0.4.8 has been compiled and tested
-successfully on following platforms:
-
-Linux (Debian GNU/Linux 2.1, RedHat 6.1)
-FreeBSD 3.3
-Solaris 2.5 / 2.6 (thanks Michael Wiedmann)
-AIX 3.2.5 (tested by Brian Salter-Duke)
-DEC alpha ? (tested by Brian Salter-Duke)
+To compile abook you must have ncurses development libraries installed.
+Starting from version 0.4.10 abook is known to compile with the native curses
+library of SUN Solaris and OpenBSD. Since version 0.5.0 GNU readline is
+required. Please note that other readline implementations don't work.
+
+If you compile with --enable-debug flag you should redirect standard error
+to somewhere. (for example abook 2> debug or abook 2> /dev/null) Abook has
+been compiled and tested successfully on following platforms:
+(NOTE: All versions of abook haven't been tested on all platforms.)
+
+Linux (distributions with moderately new GNU ncurses and GNU readline libraries
+ should work)
+Darwin
+Solaris
+FreeBSD
+OpenBSD
+NetBSD
+GNU/Hurd
+AIX 3.2.5
+HPUX
+Irix 6.5
+DEC alpha ?