diff --git a/README b/README
index 342aaea..a277506 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -20,13 +20,22 @@ to work now.  However, once the i386 version runs nicely on a variety
 of gccs it may be fun for someone to make the non i386 versions run
 again.
 
-To compile syn68k, try
+To compile syn68k on a 32-bit i386 system, try
 
   ./autogen.sh
   ./configure
   make
   make install
 
+To compile syn68k on a 64-bit x86_64 system, make sure you have all
+the 32-bit libraries you need (on Fedora 10 I needed to install
+glibc-devel.i386 and libgcc.i386) then try this hack
+
+  ./autogen.sh
+  CC='gcc -m32' ./configure --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu
+  make
+  make install
+
 Performance nit:
 
 The code in runtime/i486-cleanup.pl no longer gets rid of all the