diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 779b3dbcf..e811a1837 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 go/mlr
 go/mlr.exe
-./mlr
-./mlr.exe
+mlr
+mlr.exe
 a.out
 *.dSYM
 catc
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 0eaf2e192..199a2b8c2 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 build:
 	make -C go build
-	@echo Miller executable is: go/mlr
+	@echo "Miller executable is: ./mlr, or go\mlr.exe on Windows"
 
 check:
 	make -C go check
diff --git a/configure b/configure
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..05179572c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/configure
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+usage() {
+  echo "Usage: $0 [--prefix {prefix directory}], e.g. /usr/local" 2>&1
+  exit 1
+}
+
+prefix="/usr/local"
+if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
+  echo "Using $prefix"
+elif [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
+  usage
+else
+  if [ "$1" != "--prefix" ]; then
+    usage
+  fi
+  # Test for read access, not write access, since people can ./configure, make,
+  # and make check outside of sudo and then make install inside sudo.
+  prefix="$2"
+  if [ ! -d "$prefix" ]; then
+    echo "$0: could not find prefix directory \"$prefix\""
+    exit 1
+  fi
+fi
+
+sed "s@PREFIX_TEMPLATE_IS_HERE@$prefix@" go/Makefile.in  > go/Makefile
+sed "s@PREFIX_TEMPLATE_IS_HERE@$prefix@" man/Makefile.in > man/Makefile
diff --git a/go/Makefile b/go/Makefile
index 1da98e72e..e1705b416 100644
--- a/go/Makefile
+++ b/go/Makefile
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
-# TODO: take from ../configure
-INSTALLDIR=/usr/local/bin
+# Please edit Makefile.in rather than Makefile, which is overwritten by ../configure.
+PREFIX=/usr
+INSTALLDIR=$(PREFIX)/bin
 
+# Attempt cp; will fail on Windows but ignore and continue
 build:
 	go build
+	-cp mlr ..
 
 check:
 	# Unit tests (small number)
diff --git a/go/Makefile.in b/go/Makefile.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..643b5dbca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/go/Makefile.in
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# Please edit Makefile.in rather than Makefile, which is overwritten by ../configure.
+PREFIX=PREFIX_TEMPLATE_IS_HERE
+INSTALLDIR=$(PREFIX)/bin
+
+# Attempt cp; will fail on Windows but ignore and continue
+build:
+	go build
+	-cp mlr ..
+
+check:
+	# Unit tests (small number)
+	go test -v mlr/src/...
+	# Regression tests (large number)
+	#
+	# See ./regression_test.go for information on how to get more details
+	# for debugging.  TL;DR is for CI jobs, we have 'go test -v'; for
+	# interactive use, instead of 'go test -v' simply use 'mlr regtest
+	# -vvv' or 'mlr regtest -s 20'. See also src/auxents/regtest.
+	go test -v
+
+install: build
+	cp mlr $(INSTALLDIR)
+
+fmt:
+	go fmt ./...
+
+# Go does its own dependency management, outside of make.
+.PHONY: build fmt
diff --git a/go/todo.txt b/go/todo.txt
index dab1e6f19..d82c1bd73 100644
--- a/go/todo.txt
+++ b/go/todo.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 PUNCHDOWN LIST
 
 * plan:
+  o conda etc
+    - get a link for rmd
+    - ./configure experiment
+    - miller.spec experiment
   o blockers:
     - fractional-strptime
     - cmp-matrices
diff --git a/man/Makefile b/man/Makefile
index 5b17b72c6..915c02410 100644
--- a/man/Makefile
+++ b/man/Makefile
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
+# Please edit Makefile.in rather than Makefile, which is overwritten by ../configure.
+#
 # Respective MANPATH entries would include /usr/local/share/man or $HOME/man.
 # This should be run after make in the ../c directory but before make in the ../docs directory,
 # since ../go/mlr is used to autogenerate ./manpage.txt which is used in ../docs.
 # See also https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/build.html#creating-a-new-release-for-developers
-# TODO: take this from ./configure
-INSTALLDIR=/usr/local/share/man/man1
+PREFIX=/usr
+INSTALLDIR=$(PREFIX)/share/man/man1
 
 # This is normally done only on a development host. Through CI and
 # package-installer, mlr.1 should be treated as an already-built artifact,
diff --git a/man/Makefile.in b/man/Makefile.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..accfca4df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/Makefile.in
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# Please edit Makefile.in rather than Makefile, which is overwritten by ../configure.
+#
+# Respective MANPATH entries would include /usr/local/share/man or $HOME/man.
+# This should be run after make in the ../c directory but before make in the ../docs directory,
+# since ../go/mlr is used to autogenerate ./manpage.txt which is used in ../docs.
+# See also https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/build.html#creating-a-new-release-for-developers
+PREFIX=PREFIX_TEMPLATE_IS_HERE
+INSTALLDIR=$(PREFIX)/share/man/man1
+
+# This is normally done only on a development host. Through CI and
+# package-installer, mlr.1 should be treated as an already-built artifact,
+# needing only to be copied to its install dir.
+# Copying to man1/mlr1 is so that you can then put the Miller dir in your
+# $MANPATH and do "man mlr".
+build: .always
+	echo mkman start
+	./mkman.rb > mlr.1
+	./mkman.rb | groff -man -Tascii | col -b | expand -8 > manpage.txt
+	cp manpage.txt ../docs/src/
+	echo mkman end
+	mkdir ./man1
+	cp mlr.1 ./man1
+
+install:
+	mkdir -p $(INSTALLDIR)
+	cp mlr.1 $(INSTALLDIR)/mlr.1
+
+
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------
+.always:
+	true
diff --git a/miller.spec b/miller.spec
index 28426cb75..4239d8910 100644
--- a/miller.spec
+++ b/miller.spec
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 Summary: Name-indexed data processing tool
 Name: miller
-Version: 5.10.2
+Version: 6.0.0
 Release: 1%{?dist}
 License: BSD
 Source: https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/download/%{version}/mlr-%{version}.tar.gz
 URL: https://miller.readthedocs.io
+# gcc for cgo transitive dependency
+BuildRequires: golang
 BuildRequires: gcc
-BuildRequires: flex >= 2.5.35
+BuildRequires: systemd-rpm-macros
 
 %description
 Miller (mlr) allows name-indexed data such as CSV and JSON files to be
@@ -16,17 +18,16 @@ streams data where possible so its memory requirements stay small. It works
 well with pipes and can feed "tail -f".
 
 %prep
-%setup -q -n mlr-%{version}
+%autosetup
 
 %build
-%configure
-%make_build
+make build
 
 %check
 make check
 
 %install
-%make_install
+make install
 
 %files
 %license LICENSE.txt