-When you run "./configure" to configure the package, plib's defaults
-to installing the headers in /usr/local/plib/include and the libraries
-in /usr/local/plib/lib.
+You should be able to just run "./configure" to configure the package
+and use all of plib's defaults. Then run "make" followed by "make
+install". By default, plib installs itself into /usr so if you don't
+like this, be sure to specify an alternate prefix such as --prefix=/usr/local
+
+As of this writing (2007-11-18), many linux distributions are shipped with a
+working version of plib, so chances are that this library is already
+installed. It should be noted, that currently plib version no longer compiles
+using recent versions of gcc (confirmed on version gcc 4.1.2, as shipped with
+SuSe 10.2). As a workaround, it is possible to either use plib SVN. Run the
+following commands:
+
+
+svn co https://plib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/plib/trunk plib
+cd plib
+./autogen.sh
+./configure
+make
+make install
+
+Alternatively, it is relatively straightforward to fix the compilation
+problems in plib
+
+The two errors reported are the following:
+ssgaSky.h:107: error: extra qualification ‘ssgaCelestialBodyList::’ on member ‘ssgaCelestialBodyList’
+ssgaSky.h:195: error: extra qualification ‘ssgaCloudLayerList::’ on member ‘ssgaCloudLayerList’