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diff --git a/INSTALL_MAINT b/INSTALL_MAINT
index 2d4c5c9..5066a55 100644
--- a/INSTALL_MAINT
+++ b/INSTALL_MAINT
@@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ Information for HDF5 maintainers:
GNU systems and inserted into the Makefile's by running
config.status (which happens near the end of configure).
+* If you use GNU make along with gcc then the Perl script `trace' is
+ run just before dependencies are calculated to update any H5TRACE()
+ calls that might appear in the file. Otherwise, after changing the
+ type of a function (return type or argument types) one should run
+ `trace' manually on those source files (e.g., ../bin/trace *.c).
+
* Object files stay in the directory and are added to the library as a
final step instead of placing the file in the library immediately
and removing it from the directory. The reason is three-fold:
@@ -90,4 +96,4 @@ Information for HDF5 maintainers:
$ make -j2
which limits the number of children to two (this doesn't work at the
- top level because the `-j2' is not passed to recursive makes.
+ top level because the `-j2' is not passed to recursive makes).